Category: Biographies
A Fag’s Duties—His Respect for Præfects—Præfects’ Responsibilities—Code of Honour—Lying Scouted—Exceptional Anecdote—Certain Things considered Common Property—Slang—Nicknames of Officials and Under-Porter—Whole Holidays—Remedies—Half Holidays—Sundays—Hills, 37
A Fag’s Duties—His Respect for Præfects—Præfects’ Responsibilities—Code of Honour—Lying Scouted—Exceptional Anecdote—Certain Things considered Common Property—Slang—Nicknames of...
3. CHAPTER IV.4. CHAPTER V.5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VII.7. CHAPTER VIII.Description of School—Scobs—Officers—Division of Classes—Prizes and Medals—Long and Short Half—Easter Time—Commoners’ Speaking—Cloisters—Latin Composition—Flogging—Scraping and...
8. CHAPTER IX.9. CHAPTER X.10. CHAPTER XI.11. CHAPTER XII.12. CHAPTER XIV.13. CHAPTER I.It is now nearly half a century since, full of hope and spirits, I made my appearance at Winchester College, when I entered the gates, proud of my position as the junior Wykeham...
14. CHAPTER II.Before entering into particulars it will be necessary to give the non-Wykehamist reader some idea of the arrangement of the College buildings, and of their various uses in the g...
15. CHAPTER III.A Fag’s Duties—His Respect for Præfects—Præfects’ Responsibilities—Code of Honour—Lying Scouted—Exceptional Anecdote—Certain Things considered Common Property—Slang—Nicknames of...
16. CHAPTER IV.In this chapter, I propose to recount some of the solemnities attendant on the first appearance of a new boy. I need not go through a list of the ordinary questions and chaffing...
17. CHAPTER V.In the centre quadrangle (_vide_ Plan) are situated the seven Chambers in which the College boys sleep. They are on the ground-floor, and are called, after their respective numb...
18. CHAPTER VI.At a quarter before nine the door of Seventh chamber passage was opened, and the boys, eager for breakfast, tumultuously rushed out from school-court; stopping at the bottom of...
19. CHAPTER VII.Let us tread more gently as we pass through the gates of the beautiful chapel. Here at any rate our Junior finds some rest and quiet, and is for a period beyond the reach of the...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Description of School—Scobs—Officers—Division of Classes—Prizes and Medals—Long and Short Half—Easter Time—Commoners’ Speaking—Cloisters—Latin Composition—Flogging—Scraping and...
21. CHAPTER IX.When the weather was too bad on a Holiday or “Remedy” to go on to Hills, we used to pass the day principally in school; the gate of Seventh Chamber passage being locked, and com...
22. CHAPTER X.As I said before, I must confess that as a Junior I did not on the whole look upon a holiday as a peculiar blessing; indeed I used to watch the applicant for a Remedy with much...
23. CHAPTER XI.Soon after morning chapel on a Holiday or Remedy all the boys assembled at “Gates”—_i.e._, in seventh chamber passage—each boy choosing a “Socius,” or companion, as in marching...
24. CHAPTER XII.Thoroughly to realise the merits of the holy men of old, one should have been at a public school; nobody ever welcomed the recurrence of their anniversaries with more sincere jo...
25. CHAPTER XIII.The last two weeks of the Long-half, which ended about the middle of July, were called respectively “Standing-up” and “Election-week.” The former was rather a time of trial for...
26. CHAPTER XIV.The last week of the Long half, or “Election week,” was indeed a “Jubilee” for the Fags, inasmuch as there were no lessons whatever, and the Præfects were either undergoing thei...
27. CHAPTER XV.If I could only flatter myself that any of my readers have felt one quarter of the pleasure in reading my little book that I have derived from writing it, I should be more than...