The prizes for the Phillimore Translations into English prose and verse were awarded as follows: Prose. H.C. Benbow Verse. H.R. James Q.S. The subject chosen for the Prose was Thucydides i. chpp. 7-10, for the verse the fourth Ode of Propertius.
Friday June 18th gave rise to one of the most serious rows that have occurred here for many years:……. On Friday June 18th after ‘speeches’ up School a most unseemly disturbance was made by the greater part of the school, and which the masters took no steps to quell whatever. At the advice of Dr.…
On Monday June 7th I and my brother and Robson were asked by H.R. James Q.S. captain to attend a monitors’ meeting on the following day to consider a case in which Sheridan (Grant’s) had shown great insubordination and insolent defiance to F.E. Lewin (Head monitor) whilst ‘picking up’ at Lawn Tennis and a second…
It is, I believe, under somewhat unusual circumstance, that my name suddenly appears as Prin: Opp: – From 1876 until May 1880 I was a Q.S. but after being elected to Cambridge had nothing to engage me until the following October. Dr Scott and the Rev. C.A. Jones kindly consented therefore to keep me on…
The following are the T.B.B. monitors for the Midsummer Term: H.C. Benbow prin: opp: …… Grant’s W.L. Benbow ……………… Grant’s H.N. Robson ………………. Rigaud’s The following T.B.B. are also in the Sixth: H. Gwinner Homeboarder H. Munro Rigaud’s T.B. Hodge | | Grant’s | E. Poland T. Morison
The result of “Election” this year is as follows: W.A. Peck | |Oxford | C.W.R. Tepper R.S. Owen A.A. Sikes | |Cambridge | H.C. Benbow H.W. de Sausmarez Triplett Exhibitions A.A. Sikes H.C. Benbow Triplett Gratuity C.Ogle Cyril Ogle Prin: Opp:
The result of the competition for the Latin prose prize is that W.A. Peck Q.S. obtains a second prize; R.S. Owen Q.S. being next best. No first prize was awarded. In the Gk: Iambics W.A. Peck and R.S. Owen Q.S.S. were bracketed equal, W.R. Tepper “proxime accessit”. In the examination for the Cheyne Arithmetic prizes…
On Feb: 24th: a school collection was made in Abbey, which reached 18 guineas, and was devoted to the fund raised by the Duchess of Marlborough for the relief of distress in Ireland.
At a meeting of the Debating Society, held on Frid: March 19th:, it was decided that the meetings whd: be prorogued till September “owing to the approach of the Cricket season”.
The Eleven is now filled up and stands as follows: H.C. Benbow (Capt.); W.F.G. Sandwith; H.N. Robson; W.A. Burridge; R.T. Squire; A.A. Sikes; F.G. Clarke; C.W.R. Tepper; G. Stephenson; F.W. Bain; R.C. Batley.