In consequence of the Etonians having been defeated last year at Datchet Bridge they again challenged us to row them. The preliminaries having been all settled at the Eton Montem by the respective Heads of the Water, it was agreed by both parties that the Race should take place Tuesday July 31st (the Match day)…
In consequence of a dispute having arisen at the Revd J Bentalls Boarding house (concerning the propriety of locking boys up in their rooms) and some of the fellows having by consent of the Head Master changed their boarding house the following Rules were established 1st That any fellow in the 6th changing to a…
Williamson having discovered that in the sculling match just mentioned the fellows had all rowed in boats which were not Robert’s immediately sent for the Captain (Richards) and for Somerton (Head of the TB) and told them that he was willing to forget what had happened if they would pledge themselves on the part of…
At 3 meetings of the sixth held on the 6th, 7th and 8th days of March 1837 the following paper was agreed to and signed by the Heads of the T.B. and H.B. boats. It being absolutely necessary, in consequence of the low state of the school to resort to this method of keeping up…
Having often heard the following admitted as rules by former heads, and other fellows; but not finding them written in this book, I think it right to place them here. First – “That when a head of the T.B. has, (from being placed high in the school) not been here long enough to know the…
This year, as usual, Williamson began, by making new rules, which compelled us to attend “Mathematical Lectures” on early Plays and Holidays. BG Astley Head Boarder This order is now given up. B.A.
A Rowing Match having been agreed upon between Preston and Astley (TB) versus Savile and Drew (KS), Roberts through jealousy, on account of their not using his boats (which are considerably too heavy to race in) informed Williamson of it, who instantly stopped it, and set the parties concerned in it an Impositions of such…
After Whitsuntide this year (1834) Williamson annulled the rule, which, on the two former years he had put into force, that names should be called over at the fields at ½ past 7 and in Deans Yard at ¼ to 8. R.P. Warren Prin. Opp.
A Homeboarder in the Sixth having become a boarder at Stelfox’s It was thought right by myself and the rest of the Sixth to make the following regulation. “That no one can have any of the priveledges of Head Boarder altho’ nominally so, or have a fag, or be head of a house, or head…
In consequence of the accident mentioned in the preceding number Williamson sent round the following regulations about the water. 1st No boy is allowed to go on the water except in one of Robert’s boats, and with his permission or knowledge – and if a boy has a private boat he must keep it at…