The Head Master has thought that a “Games Committee” ought to be formed to regulate expenses & especially Mantle’s bill. The following rules were determined – The Cost of all School Games shall be defrayed from a General Fund, raised by a charge to all boys in the Third & Fourth Forms of £1.1s a…
At the beginning of term one of our fellows seems to have kicked a small skye(?) on his way down fields, from the awful effects of which the latter fell into a speedy decline being in the graphic language of his mother “all drooped o’ one side”. This mother therefore called a witness, aged somewhere…
The School has drawn the Match with Old Carthusians & been beaten by Old Etonians & R.M.C. Sandhurst.
On Shrove Tuesday Feb 6th the Pancake Greaze took place. The Pancake was very well thrown & fell not far from the Rod drawer. Scoones got possession of it & ran with it to the Sixth-form benches where the Greaze took place. Scoones managed to keep his prize entire & thus won the sovereign.
The Gumbleton Prize for English Verse has been awarded to C. Webb Q.S. The subject was the St. Gothard Tunnel.
Westminster played the return match with Reigate Priory on Jan 27. A draw was the result. On the following Wednesday we played Clapham Rovers & were beaten 5-0.
January 1883. T.B.B. in the Sixth W.G. Hewitt (Rigaud’s) F.T. Higgins (Rigaud’s) A. Stanfield (Rigaud’s) G.E.M. Eden (Grant’s) A.M.T. Jackson (Grant’s)
The play was performed very successfully this year, in spite of Waterfield’s Mishap. On the first Night some TBB thought good to make themselves objectionable by clapping in time & shouting. The Monitors wished to tan some of the ringleaders for this but Dr Scott refused permission on their appealing to him & they got…
About a week before the first night of the play H. Waterfield Captain of Q.SS broke the bone of his little toe in a football match & was therefore unable to take part in the play.
This term a Paperchase was got up. The fellows who joined it went by the Underground & changed at a public near Wimbledon Common. The keepers however seized the bags of paper when the hares had gone some way. A good run however was had. Higgins & Yglesias being given about 300 yds start. Yglesias…