Truly Westminster of the past is no more. Even the pancake is virtually abolished. Rutherford has dared to substitute for the good old Greeze a wretched tip of his own, a mere baby-play. He ordered each form to elect a representative who should be permitted to try for the pancake. Thus we had about a dozen fellows ranged upon the daïs at the end of the schoolroom who rushed at the pancake directly it was thrown hoping that they at least would be allowed to greeze. But no, the iron hand of despotism again intervened and the arm of the ‘mighty one’ separated this little company. Not to be outdone, about fourty fellows under the leadership of Lowe, Q.S. monitor who had donned the cooks clothes, organised a supplementary greeze of a more exciting nature. In the midst Rutherford appeared on the scene livid with passion and mute with impotent wrath. He had all the fellows names taken down. The QSS were ‘unfrocked’ a childish whim of the Headmaster’s. All were sent to detention on the Saturday following except “the eleven” who went on the Tuesday.
Two letters appeared in the Morning Post about the Greeze, slanging Rutherford.
When the Headmaster came round on the Tuesday afternoon to ‘unfrock’ the Q.SS. he used a most ungentlemanly (but what else would be expected) expression about the school viz. that is ‘stank in the nostrils of the world’.
It is worthy of mention that some of the bigger fellows among whom were the captains of Water and Cricket refused to have anything to do with the orthodox baby play, preferring the impromptu greeze.
E.F. Allan
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