There has been a series of lectures delivered this half in the Library, once a week, by Dr. Noad on heat. They have proved very interesting and we have had questions on them for a prize, which was awarded to Egerton Q.S. 2nd Bandinel T.B. E.R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
The captain wrote to the Archbishop Longley the newly made Primate, an Old Westminster, asking him to come down & beg for an early play for us. He wrote to say that Saturday (29th) was the only day he could come & as Scott had done away with early plays he did not come till…
Two days after the above had happened Bandinel a VIth T.B. told me his gold watch was gone from his cupboard in Chiswick. We consulted together & determined to examine everyone’s drawers, which we did on the following morning, but found nothing. The same day I was informed that a fellow named Bray had lost…
Hardly a week had elapsed after the last row when Scott asked me to inquire among the fellows, about a thermometer of his which he had lost from its place by his desk up school. Now it happened that a boy named T had been seen with a thermometer the night before the loss of…
For more than a year past, fellows in this house have from time to time been losing money, from their drawers, purses, etc. Just this time last year there was one of these rows shown up to Marshall. Everything was done to find out the culprit, but in vain. Of course, someone was suspected and…
The “Elizabethans” took down to Charlton (Mr Woolwich) a team, to play football. The weather was wretched & we play in a dripping rain. The result was two games all. Sat 15hou. 1862. E.R. Dowdeswell
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, came of age on Sunday the 9th of Nov., but owing to it being on a Sunday it was kept all over the Kingdom (except Westminster) on Monday. That is we did not keep it properly. It being Monday we of course expected leave till 10. This we did not…
There is to be a play this year again. The masters have returned to Terence (although they thought if to material before, the Plautus was substituted in 1860.) The play nights are 11th, 16th, & 18th of December. E.R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
At a meeting of “Elizabethans” on Thursday 30th the following business was transacted: Phillimore and Yates QSS (who had [receded?] from the club last half) were re-elected as members of the Elizabethan Club. I That in future all members be entirely equal. No notice being taken of their position in the school. That the words…
The Athletic Sports came off on Wednesday and Thursday the 22nd & 23rd October. The weather had been very strong for some days before, but luckily cleared up enough to let us have a good day’s fun. The running was much better than last year’s, the judging perhaps not quite so good. O’Brien Q.S. won…