In honour of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark’s arrival in London Scott has given us an early play on Saturday to see the procession. Leave out has also been given from Tuesday at 12.30 till 10am on Wednesday morning, to see the illuminations. Leave will be given to those who are unlucky enough not to…
The Town boy & Queen’s scholars football match was played on Tuesday the … of February. We unluckily had a very weak eleven & were beaten easily by 3 games to one. The elevens were as follows. T.B. Giles Preston Whittaker Dowdeswell ii Dowdeswell iii Vidal Lucas Bovill Wylde Hurley Short Q.S. Chepmell Yates…
February 1863 On Shrove Tuesday the pancake was scrambled for as usual, & won by Yates Q. S. who of course got the £1. E. R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
The play this year was ‘Andria’. The acting was pronounced to be first-rate by all the Old Westminster enties. The characters were as follows: Simo = N. Bosanquet Sosia = A. Downie Davus = G. T. O’Brien Mysis = J. M. Yates Pamphilus = W. Phillimore Charinus = A. Stewart Byrrhia = N. Egerton Lesbia…
On the following Friday the Eton eleven came down. They played hard for more than [an] hour without any success on either side, till a length just as they were going to finish, one of the Eton men (Lyttleton) was thrown heavily. He fell with his arm twisted under him and was helped up with…
On Tuesday the 9th of December, the Harrow eleven again appeared up fields to play us at football. After about an hour’s play, in which neither side kicked a game, the two elevens dispersed, the Harrow men hurrying off to the train, our men to the bat room to spend the next hour, till lockhours,…
We have started a fund for the Lancashire operatives which I am sorry to say does not go on very well. We get about £1.10 a week out of the house, besides a regular donation from each fellow – varying from 10/- to 5/- each. E.R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
Scott handed a fellow the other day for his imprudence to a master & on caning him in the Library expressed a wish (in my absence) that the Q.S.S. would look after the discipline of the Townboys a little better. On the strength of this O’Brien, head monitor, sent for the fellow who had been…
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…