Rugby School (A History of Rugby H L S C Oo

P U B L I C SC H OOL L I FE

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LON DON ! SI R ISAAC PITMAN S ON S LTD . 19 1 ] N O 1 AM N C O R N R E C . . E E , PRI NTED B Y SIR ISAAC PITMAN

So N T D. LO N ATH s , L , DON, B . AN D N EW YORK 19 1 1 P refa c e

THERE is nothing new in th is small book except what has happened since 1900. The present compiler most warmly thanks

. . use . . . Dr W H . D . Ro and Mr H C Bradby for their freely-granted permis sion to make use of their excellent books on Rugby School (A History of Rugby h l S c oo . use , by W H . D . Ro , Duckworth

R . . Co . 1898 u b and , ; and g y, by H C ll Bradby , George Be and Sons , use l all Dr . Ro has fu ly investigated of available records , and most the history here contained is a bare summary of his work . In so small a compass it has been frequently necessary to condense , even to the point of obscurity . For this and many other failings the compiler wishes to apologise to any possible reader . He is glad to feel that the booklet has — at least interested one reader him self , who has found plagiarism more entertaining than one would imagine . Any accuracy it may have is due to

M. F. . A . the revising care of his friend , G l Chatwin , whose Rugbeian ore much ’ exceeds the writer s , and has been most freely lavished on the purging of errors from these pages . Those that remain ’ are solely the writer s fault .

C o ntents

CHA P AGE P .

I ISTORY . H

II . THE SCHOOL B UILDINGS

III . SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS

V HE WORK OF THE SCHOOL I . T

TRI IAL ROUND V. THE V

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L S F L B S TEMP E PEECH ROOM , ROM O D IG IDE TEMPLE READING ROOM (INTERIOR) NEW BIG SCHOOL A SCH OOL IN NEW BIG

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CHAPTER I

HISTORY

HOWEVER uncertain and dim our outlook upon English History h as been (and in as many c es still is) , it is true of most of us that somewhere about the beginning of the sixteenth century the view seems as to be coming more into focus , it were us i persons appear real to , even fam liar ; events assume a logical sequence ; even s of date , a few them , stick in the memory . all li At events , the reign of E zabeth is of li a region ght after much Plantagenet , - and pre Plantagenet , obscurity . We hav e read that the Elizabethan days were of e lan ex an days wide mov ment , j ubi t p sion , and , what is more , we understand hi so that these t ngs were . We know for ourselves what happened between 1558 and 1603 ; what happened before t hat epoch we have been told , times a s without number , and have often forgotten . 2 RUGBY SCHOOL

And if the sixteenth century puts ai ull uncom re cert nty in the place of d , p di hen ng acceptance in the average mind , Still more is there reason for every Rug beian to feel that here at last he is standing ” r on ﬁrm g ound . For every schoolboy , though he may lack that odd piece of knowledge with which Lord Macaulay once credited him , at least knows (if he be a Sh eriffe Rugbeian) that Lawrence , or f Sh erife Sherri f, or (and some other varia of tions , for he had no more notion writing his own name consistently than had Shakespeare) founded Rugby School in 1 567 .

As a fact he did not at any rate , not in any sense in wh ich we talk now of Rugby

School . What he did , and how the seed - wn— has developed into the full blo no , not , - w — so we hope , yet quite full blo n plant , l of - w ll fu l life and vigour to day , it i be necessary to trace out as brieﬂy as may be . Sh eriffe P And ﬁrst , who was Lawrence ll Indeed , there is little enough to te . was r u b or Apparently he bo n at R g y , at any rate thought so himself though no man is a very authentic witness to that circumstance , any more than to his death ; and the date of his birth is HISTORY 3

’ likewise wrop in myst ry but a man wh o was in 154 1 made a Freeman of ’ the Grocers Company and wh o quite 1567 certainly died in September , (for the New Parish Register of Christ Church , so gate Street , says , and takes occasion ' to spell him after yet another fashion , Sh yryffe can hardly have been born of much after the accession Henry VIII .

Grocer he certainly was , and so far proud of it as to take as his own a part of the ’ of arms the Grocers Company , and to add ’

thereto , by way of crest , a lion s paw, or erased , , holding a bunch of dates , the r of f uit the first in the pods argent , the a A st lks and leaves proper . modern humorist has conj ectured that he w a s the first of his trade to discover that sand might profitably be admixed with sugar but this is to cast aspersions on the character of one whose sole appearance ’ in History is in the pages of Foxe s B ook o Ma rt rs f y , where he stands as an out ’ spoken loyalist (had he not the Queen s letters patent as her Purveyor of Spices not afraid to correct sharply and in public

- - the over free , wine inspired criticism of of se another frequenter the Ro Tavern , Hi las not far from Newgate Street . s t 4 RUGBY SCHOOL

i its will and testament we have , w th l i 1909 inestimab e cod cil , and in an artist w as found imaginative enough to con j ecture his personal appearance from this meagre record of h is career where fore he now stands , and long may he stand , in stained glass , unpretentious , unremark able , soberly gowned , over against the mightiest shaper of his growing School , looking down on its six hundred members gathered in the latest and (internally) ’ l the best of Rugby s secu ar buildings . We give Th ee most humble a nd h ea rty tha nks 0 most merci ul Fath er or our , f , f Founder La wrence Sh eri e a nd or a ll ﬁ , f our Governors a nd B ene a ctors b wh ose f , y beneﬁt this wh ole Sch ool is brough t up to odline s a nd ood lea rnin g s g g. So every all Sunday , at least , and on high days is heard , in a Chapel which he never of of dreamed , the prayer the School congregation not unmindful of the good intent of our religious Founder . Like many another charitable bequest , his good intent h as developed beyond his L t ken . e us see what were the means by which he well and truly laid the foundations . His Almshouses do not here concern HISTORY 5

us ; but hard by these he directs that there should be ‘ built a fai r and con ” v enient a n School House , in which

honest , discreet , and learned man was to teach grammar and generally preside of Sh eriffe over the Free School Lawrence , of London , Grocer , to serve chieﬂy for the children of Rugby and Brown ” sov er A al 12 . s ary of £ per annum , w together ith free lodging , was thought sufﬁcient to secure the proper quantity of honesty , discretion , and learning . TWO Trustees were appointed , and to them the will consigned the Mansion

House and certain land in Rugby , more land and a house at Brownsover , and a 1 legacy of 00for general school purposes .

So ran the original will , but by the most of fortunate inspirations , he wrote a nl h is Codicil , o y a few weeks before substitu death , revoking the legacy , and for of ting it the third part a ﬁeld , called

Conduit Close , near London . Few ﬁelds can have done so much good to so many people with their third part for houses

- crowd thick upon it to day , and though rent a ers Fashion has moved the large . p y thence , it still brings in an income of something over a year .

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w as Thus sown the seed , but the soil w as . unkindly , and the seasons adverse Not for seven years was the building nor di done , the ﬁrst honest , screet , and learned Master appointed . By 1580 he w a s f no longer in o ﬁce , and his successor w as so far from honest , whatever his di scretion and learning , as to incur , and of l probably to deserve , the wrath a loca one magnate , possibly of the Governors or or Trustees who , with without authority , made a forcible entry into the School of Rugby and from thence removed with strong hand and displaced

Richard Seale .

Litigation prolonged and . tortuous ’ marked the ﬁrst century of the School s history . We cannot here detail the ul pec ations of Trustees , the dishonest attempts by various interested persons to misappropriate the revenues both of n the London and Brow sover properties , al to the appe s Chancery , or the j udgments f or o Commissions . Somehow other the

School survived the Civil Wars , and in 1667 of November , , the centenary the Foundation w as happily marked by a l of K ﬁna decision the Lord eeper , by which the avaricious litigants were HISTORY 7

finally routed and the various properties were henceforward confined to the uses h ff contemplated by Lawrence S eri e . Throughout this period the changes in the Headmastership had been fairly f frequent , nine men having held o fice Old Kni h tle before the first Rugbeian , g y 1 670. Harrison , whose reign began in But it wa s not till 1687 that one can detect any real symptoms of the growth of the School to its nineteenth century dimen sions . In that year Henry Holyoake , ll Fe ow of Magdalen , was appointed , and remained at the School House for forty three years . No School lists survive from those days , but the Register , begun 1675 al 630 in , shows a tot entry of boys under h is rule ; and the Statisticians calculate that this represents an average strength of 90 or more in the School at one time , of whom hardly more than a quarter were the children of Rugby and n Brow sover , and other places thereunto ’ For wa s adj oining . Holyoake s fame l abroad in the and , and the great maj ority of the School now voyaged to Rugby in a stage coach from afar , much as did Tom

Brown at a later date . Mr . Bradby quotes two or three charming letters of 8 RUGBY SCHOOL

’ l Holyoake s , which clear y prove the ’ Headmaster s personal knowledge of his f boys , and reveal an a fectionate interest in themselves and their doings which are not generally considered characteristic of old of m the type Do inie . ’ Old Holyoake s successor , an Rugbeian , one h li l Jo n Plomer , seems to have had tt e other qualification for the post and the i public apparently discovered th s , and l sent their sons elsewhere . The scho astic of s Crosfield reputation Thoma , who l him fol owed , once more brought up the numbers betw een the years 1742 and 1 1748 744 . In a move into larger and more weather-proof quarters w a s made ll necessary , and was successfu y achieved il ll Kna . by Wi iam , the then Headmaster The new site caused much discussion ; the fir st idea w as to build close to the old house (it was too far gone for repair) on f the north side o the present Market Place . But fortunately Kh ail moved right up the High Street into the Manor House , which w a s to serve as the School House 1816 l until , when the present bui dings of O ld Quad were completed , and where there was scope for fresh building and the

- successive additions to the School Close .

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In his ﬁfth year there came to the School Abercomb of Ralph y , the great general

Aboukir and Alexandria . Kna il 1751 is died in , and there little need to write much of the two or three immediate successors , who increased neither the fame nor the numbers of the

School . It is more proﬁtable to look 1778 ahead to the year , when Thomas

James began his splendid reign . James ” of Ru be the First , as a later generation g w ians , brought up under the ise hand of ’ the present President of St . John s ll O ll l Co ege , xford , natura y ca ls him , was l a great man , or at least a great schoo inﬂuence uncon master , whose is still sciously felt by every present Rugbeian as he reluctantly dresses for ﬁrst Lesson

7 a . m or ll at . , as j oyfu y prepares for l ” Tuesday afternoon ha f, and reﬂects that not at all schools do they have three l — regular ha f holidays a week . For it was ' K ’ Thomas James , bred at Eton and ing s , wh o inaugurated the Time Table still surviving in many details , and the system of holidays , from which later Headmasters one have not taken away j ot , but indeed have added thereto a not infrequent l fourth ho iday of a Monday afternoon . But the mystery of Middle Week 10 RUGBY SCHOOL

Mondays will be explained in its due place 1 ; and even Middle Weeks may be darkened for the erring or the mis understood by another and baleful though withal serviceable , invention of James ’ ” — O the First s , Imposition Paper . n this alone may be written out the work for ” which a boy has been ﬂoored ; and as it is issued only by Housemasters , and must subsequently be Signed by a member of the VI as completed before l -u ocking p time , there is no secrecy about ul his failure , to comfort the so of the f all victim ; his o fence is known to , and is probably recorded on a House List by his Housemaster . As he impatiently scribbles away in his den , let him reﬂect that to James , too , he owes the study-system which gives him a strong of own one hold and retreat his , with but other , at most , to share it . But the VI in those days were far from the trusted mentors of modern times . — one That great change the thing which , ’ l above all else , is Arnold s egacy to his own and almost all other Public Schools hi had as yet occurred to none . Somet ng

1 Ev er thi r Mon a is a a lf-h oli a a s a y d d y h d y, substi tute for th e former w eekly remission Of 3rd s L esson on Sa tur da y . HISTORY 1 1 more must be said of that change presently; here it may only be noted that the VI under all predecessors of Arnold seem to have had a certain liberty allowed them -if it were not j uster to call it licence vvith ou t any responsibility . It is true that responsibility may cause a boy ’ s head to wag somewhat ponderously for a year or two but presently the young shoulders grow broad enough to bear the elderly head comfortably ; and meanwhile the owner has learned young what some men l all never earn at . No doubt the ingenious unruliness of Walter Savage Landor exceeded the average of his contemporaries (let us recall that Henry Francis Cary belongs to the same term , and Samuel Butler , of Shrewsbury) ; but James had to face much that the least well-disciplined school of to-day would regard as rank hi insubordination . Of poac ng and break of l ing bounds , revel ings that reached the of verge drunkenness , there is evidence enough ; but standards were different di l then , and James knew what scip ine meant ; and even if he aimed at incul ea tin l g it by appea s to reason , he had no namby-pa mby aversion from the drastic use Of rod l the upon occasion . Possib y 12 RUGBY SCHOOL

the authority given to assistant masters now for using the cane (with several wise circumscriptic ns) is another legacy from of k his time , a ind not found in all schools . I ts value is disputable , perhaps but there for is much to be said it . Most of us have

been beaten in our time , and are honestly l gratefu for the same . At all events , the beautiful monument in Chapel is a worthy

memorial (belauded , too , of the experts) of the Headmaster who began the new era of the School and fittingly enough is his portrait the first of the series that now fills the famous Headmaster ’ s Window

in the Upper Bench School . His resigna tion in 1794 w a s that Of a man who had wrecked his health for the work he loved

and honoured . w a s un His successor , Henry Ingles , h e fortunate . The good did has , to the of eye research , apparently been interred with his bones while the evil that he did lives after him ; for wh o has not heard — of the Great Rebellion Which sonorous title , be it said , cloaks an ignominious enough business a rebellion that is scattered by alien horsewhips is not much more credit to the revolution aries than to the wisdom of the Headmaster

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Astley convened his cronies , and wild all schemes were hatched . Not the gun powder w as consumed in the interrupted ’ of h is battery Housemaster s windows , apparently at all events , explosives were ’ found to blow the Headmaster s door from All its hinges . School windows were all systematic y smashed , and convenient ni fur ture soon provided a glorious bonﬁre , on not whose top was burned , the Doctor m l hi se f , fortunately , but the greater part of l his ibrary . Upon this ecstatic scene r the once d eaded Tiger dared not appear . But Rugby was full of folk that day his and from locked study Dr . Ingles stealthily sent for a recruiting party of di l n sol ers , then odging in the tow , and a f - di number o horse drovers . The sol ers dramatically guarded the study with ﬁxed bayonets ; but it was the advancing horsewhips that drove the insurgents to En their stronghold on the Island . c l s onced there , they istened across its moat , as probably no schoolboys before i or s nce , to the reading Of the Riot Act f by a Justice o the Peace . Meanwhile the soldiers took them basely in the rear , ri wading the moat , and making p soner the whole host . No further resistance was HISTORY 15

was possible , even if anyone anxious to n s conti ue o disastrous a farce . The Black Tiger added greatly to his reputa ﬂo er wh o tion as a gg that day , and those were not thrashed rej oined their parents l by the ﬁrst possible coach , summari y expelled .

So Dr . Ingles weathered the storm , and one can only regret never having person f ally met any survivor of that Odd a fair . The recollections of an Old Boy ever ul w as incline to the mirac ous , and here m Homeric matter for re iniscence . More of al than one OR . pictori imagination occurs to the mind as a worthy narrator So- -so of those doings . If only and had been there ! what generations of us unenterprising modem s would have hung on a s of gaping his words , he told bloody affrays with Redcoats and Horse-dealers Ah they were giants in those days 1 sa w Six or seven years later Dr . Ingles other troops manoeuvring in the Close . Invasion w a s in the air (it was French at of that time) , and the wave patriotism l Tw o ro led its ripple into the School . ani comp es of volunteers were formed , armed with wooden broadswords , who drilled assiduously and fought in good 16 RUGBY SCHOOL

n w as f ear est . That before the days o ul 176 Manoeuvre Reg ations , paragraph , with its milk-and-water rules about ﬁfty yards distance between Opposing forces ;

those two companies met hand to hand , and desisted not until there was many a bloody coxcomb between the Barby

and Dunchurch Roads . Parents may — have complained they do , sometimes or perhaps Trafalgar was the cause ! but the spurt of national defence ﬂickered

out , not to ﬂare up again until Crimean

days .

Samuel Butler wanted to succeed Ingles , Wooll but the Trustees preferred Thomas , whose learning w a s his least title to a post hi unﬁtted for w ch he was by no means . SO Butler w as free to do great work for 1806 1828 Shrewsbury , and from to Rugby had a good man in Wooll to make ready for the great fourteen years of l n Arno d . His mai work was to build adequate accommodation for the School . For six years he watched and guided that gradual transformation through what must have been great inconveniences , as one part after another of the old l n i rm bui di gs was demol shed , and Fo s migrated from place to place . Surely HISTORY 17 it wa s a ﬁne instinct that stirred Wooll to build widely enough for the coming epoch Of expansion . As the yet hornless stag-beetle prepares him a winter-home large enough to contain the horns that ll so sha presently sprout , with a wise prevision Wooll made a group of buildings adequate to the needs of many later f generations o boys . Expert Opinions are divided about the intrinsic merits Of Old w e hi the Buildings , as now t nk of ’ H a kewill s them . But architecture met w a s the case ; it unpretentious , and it was solid and he is fortunate in having less happy architects to succeed him . No Rugbeian can look at the School House O from Big Side , nor pass through ld f Quad , without an a fectionate pride in - those squat , castellated yellow white n buildings , surmou ted with a not ungrace ful clock-tower but no human being can pass from the unassuming sturdiness of Old Quad into the glaring zebra-patterns of

New Quad without something Of a wince . ’ Peace to H akewill s ashes ; would that he had lived t o plan the Tercentenary additions . There w as a good deal of money for ’ Wooll s l rebui ding schemes . The Trustees , 18 RUGBY SCHOOL

Dr a ccumu says . Rouse , had some lated in their hands and the same writer ingeniously traces the increasing annual expenditure on the new plans from the surviving records of the sums paid each All year for fire insurance . the time the School revenues h a d been growing ; especially wa s this the work of that of blessed third part a field near London , ’ all c ed Conduit s Close , Whose yearly value had increased from £8 in 1600 to 1 l over in 800. When the bui dings 1816 were finished in , it was time to secure -fields more playing . That year the various component parts of the present l School Close (exc usive of New Big Side , 1850 1864 added partly in and , but ulbum 1 4 mainly by Dr . Go in 85 ) were unified into a whole , with the result that the Close to -day does not lag much behind Winchester ’ s Meads as a fair N l W oll or a l . o prospect . was that , for Dr l at once proceeded with the new Chape , and H a kewill had . completed this by 1 2 1 8 1 . 828 Thus , at his resignation in , Wooll left behind a great memorial of his — work practically a ll that forms the Old School House and Quad , though later superstructures with ill -advised

20 RUGBY SCHOOL of n the u initiated . Surely they should detect the weary shufﬂe of feet as they of own perorate your great Arnold .

Mistake us not , good preachers . We are nOt of w e weary Arnold , and respect your worthy selves ; but leave him for those w h o know to tell us of h im . A passing i him un nformed reference to , as sauce to us your sermon , is an offence to , and deafs our ears to much else that you sa have to y to us , charm you never so wisely . We know enough of him as a teacher to realize what h is advent meant to the

- Sixth Form . He was in all respects a in literary man . A scholar , the Old n w as not sense , he certai ly , though s h is Th ne primarily o . The issue of y dides w a s no revolution in scholarship , but it w a s a new thing in the historical w a s study of the classics . For he an enthusiastic historian , for ever drawing parallels and instruction from the past for for the present ; and , further , ever illuminating the past by illustration from al the present . Classic editions , most of ! them , have their day , and pass ’ Arnold s Thucydides may have passed from all libraries whose owners had no HISTORY 2 1

Rugbeian forbears but h is Second P unic Wa r remains a classic to which

innumerable readers are grateful. After much heavy study of Roman History text i on books , what a rel ef it was to light that enthralling tale ! And all through it was the same ! he had a passion for literature— viewed through History or

- Geography , Classics or Essay writing

which he communicated to his Sixth . ’ Into Thomas James framework of Studies

he breathed this new informing spirit . The School motto reads Ora ndo L a bor a ndo . It is easy to talk nonsense about

it , and dangerous , at least , to try to O write sense . ne does not argue about

mottoes . But Arnold lived it . The of public , some them , cried out against the revolutionary Headmaster for an un- Christian , even irreligious , perverter of youth . Arnold heeded them not , and the whole Rugbeian community believed ’ O Goulbum s in him . ne gathers that strong Church teaching made more per ’ sonal impression on his boys than Arnold s ’ but of Arnold s intense religious feeling none could doubt who had a chance to l see . It caught hold of the best e ements in the School .

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Educator and religious teacher , then ; l l but the ta e is stil untold , or rather l . scarcely begun The Arno d Tradition , l right y viewed , has one element greater l than this . It is the principle of interna hi autonomy which he devised , and w ch l every other Schoo adopted from Rugby . His practice w a s to trust the Sixth to the last possible limit to concede them most of their old liberties and privileges , but to demand in exchange a high measure of public service for the good of the school . Trust your Prepostors , support ’ them to the full extent of a Hea dma ster s power ; if they fail you , discard them ; NO if they betray you , break them . man h as more boldly and unﬂinch ingly acted on Of al the principle sacriﬁcing the individu , if need be , to the community . Even if a boy were only useless— not actively harmful , he had better go quietly ; and , if harmful , go he must , swiftly . There are educational pundits abroad in the land to-day wh o prate of the wickedness of ruining the individual career . Conceive their theories applied to an Army ; to a or ! Government , a Church How , then , l so to a Schoo , whose discipline , if not visually conspicuous nor so rigid as an HISTORY 23

’ not Army s , must be much less constrain ing upon its members ! Yet that vivid Of of spirit the Indian Mutiny , Hodson , ’ H odson s for all Horse , his madcap feats , survived the discipline of the Master who could distinguish wildness from s badne s . 50 Arnold required his Prepostors to ul r e the School with him . Every boy who reached the Sixth was thereby become a of Prepostor . Clearly some them would be unsuitable to rule a society which must have a strong bias towards the A ’ theory of might is right . But rnold s unswerving belief w as in the general union of moral and intellectual excel l lence . The unsuitab e were strength

ened by the ordeal of authority , as they are tod ay ; and the ordeal may for a i time be a ﬁery one . Th s is not the place

to argue the whole system . There are great Schools which have other systems of appointing Prefects and they thrive ’ thereon . The Rugby system is Arnold s

system , and is of the blood and bone of - and ﬁbre her constitution to day . to There are checks it , and supplements but the principle is in all main points

as he left it . It is tempting to be drawn 24 RUGBY SCHOOL

of into discussion the whole theory , and its inﬂuence upon the School and upon the Sixth themselves . Prigs , said O xford and the public , when ﬁrst the Arnold Sixth congregated at the Univer i O s ty . xford was correct in its mono were syllabic criticism . They prigs read Ru b Ma az ine the g y g of his date , and l ou not you wil marvel , if y do profanely i curse , at the wiseacre hom lies written by Sixth Form boys and their successors have sometimes burst into print in no very different key even in the twentieth century ; yet some of these anonymous of contributions were from the pen Clough ,

Vaughan , Stanley , and Matthew Arnold , a s the pencilled initials Show in the margin ’ of an old volume in the present writer s for . a possession Indeed they were prigs , time, they and their successors . Let the critic only consider whether a prig may not do well for a body politic which he to helps rule , and whether there is not , neces perhaps , in more cases than not , a sary stage of priggishness in the evolution of what the British race is fond of thinking one of to be its best assets , the educated , responsible man of public spirit . They must not be j udged as complete at eighteen HISTORY 25 they recover from the passing taint they generally recover Though they pick for all their men various reasons , Schools k of now the necessity this autonomy , and all have faith enough to know that the good outweighs the bad , by much , whether for the individual or the body of which he is a part . of n is If you seek a monument Ar old , it o f small use to look round you . Buildings he never erected ; numbers he expressly 280 non- kept down to foundationers , as w h m a s natural enough to an Old Wyk a ist . Circums icere p , then , will not tell the story ’ f in ice To o s re. Arnold s greatness , but p know what he did it is necessary to grasp the whole spirit of the School that is al l visible to no casu eye , and may hard y - His be expressed in a hand book . mind of stirred , and still stirs , the whole fabric w a Rugby , in a y unperceived Of the visitor wh o stands over the simple cross marking his grave j ust in front of the lectern in Chapel . What Rugbeians felt at his death has been described in Tom B rown . No profane abbreviating hand must try to summarize it . You may purchase the book cheaply enough , and are hereby referred to its pages . What 26 RUGBY SCHOOL

’ s of Tom Brown felt , the re t Arnold s Boys felt ; scholars like Conington (of the astounding memory J . B . Mayor and others already mentioned ; the all vates round man , Thomas Hughes , our sa cer as ; the future Headm ters , E . H . of l d Bradby , Hai eybury , and Dean Bra ley , of Marlborough Ministers such as Lord di Derby and W H . Wad ngton (the French Premier of Lord Cross and of Sir Richard Temple , Bengal ; bishops not a few ; soldiers in numbers who fought in the Crimea or through the

Mutiny ; Galton and Highton , the O scientists swell , the explorer , and many another who has left his name behind him in this or the - other sphere of public ln usefu ess . Vixere fortes a nte Aga memnona and ost A memnon even p ga a . But to succeed l w as r For Arno d a c ucial matter . the next eight years the very different ﬁgure of Archibald Campbell Tait presided at the his School House , greatly aided by wife , conserving the spirit which he found

1 I t is r e or e th a t Conin ton a s a new c d d g , b o w as is ov er e r e itin th e ZEneid t o a. y , d c d c g row Of fellow s in hi s stu w h o trie oo c d dy , d , b k n m t t fa ile i h a n to catch h i ou bu . d , , d

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there , exaggerating it , some said , to an l intolerab e degree . Under him the num bers , artificially restrained by Arnold , rose to close on 500 ; new studies were built at the School House ; several new l Boarding Houses arose , whi e the old were filled full ; and the Arnold Library w as O . built , completing the ld Quad The work was beyond Tait ’ s physical 1850 powers , and in he resigned to become Of ll Dean Carlisle , and eventua y the first of the three Archbishops whom Rugby provided in the nineteenth century for Archbishop Temple ruled the school from 1858- 1869 ; and Edward White Benson , afterwards Headmaster of Wellington College before he began his twofold

al . a episcop career , was Rugby Master ’ 1 2- from 85 8. Tait s pupils included

many men known to fame . The names

of . . Lord Goschen and A G Butler , Of Haileybury ; a future Rugby Head l master , the present Dean of Wel s and wh o Lewis Carroll (C . L . Dodgson , ! hated his school life , and alas held no pleasant memories of Rugby) must serve as representatives where there is no space i a ll to chron cle . As a direct antidote to too much 28 RUGBY SCHOOL

A l m rno dis Dr . , Goulburn , afterwards Dean wa s of Norwich , appointed Headmaster 1 l in 850. A safe Conservative in po itics vi l l and ecclesiastical ews , he cou d hard y sympathise with much that he found at Rugby but the Goulbum window in the South Transept Of the Chapel was an spontaneous token of the affection with which his old boys regarded him . He himself did much to alter and improve the Chapel and its services and though he not w e could preach Arnold s sermons , 2 1 have seen already (p . ) that his religious teaching made a great impression . No more striking testimony can be given to the teaching of a man w h o knew h ow to develop good material than to set down baldly this list of scholars wh o entered ’ Rugby in Goulburn s time ; the ph iloso

h ers . . p , Henry Sidgwick , Hodgson , and T H

Green ; the Grecian , Arthur Sidgwick ; Of the Corpus Professor Latin , Robinson Ellis ; Lord Justice Bowen (Bony dyr a eé s punned the modern Homerid) , Sir - of Edmund Maunde Thompson , the

British Museum ; H . W . Eve , and C . H .

Tawney . ’ ’ Goulburn s Tait s and reigns , then , were times of quietude and peaceful

HISTORY 29 expansion ; but in 1858 the Trustees again went to the opposite school of thought l for a Headmaster . Frederick Temp e A l l was of the m o dian mould . A Libera i l in pol tics , he a so appeared to the timor ous an unorthodox Church man for did he not help to write the famous Essays a nd Reviews ! But it is only necessary to look at his Life a nd Letter s to realize l the enthusiasm with which the Schoo , f sta f and boys , responded to his strong guidance ! and the most cursory visitor to Rugby must be struck by the fre quenoy of his name in the title of various of School buildings . The Tercentenary hi the School fell in his Headmasters p , and from that dates much of the neces sary , if ugly , architecture for which the of - immense resource Dr . Jex Blake collected adequate funds greatly supple mented by h is own generosity The third of Rugbeian Archbishops h as too lately left us for criticism of his rule to l be suitable here moreover , the ta e has been told in the Life by the affectionate 0 l pen of his . R . Chap ain , E . G . Sandford . l ll And very many of his old pupi s sti live , among them the Chairman of the Govern L Kilbra cken so l ing Body , ord , ong 30 RUGBY SCHOOL known to those interested in India as

Sir Arthur Godley . After Temple there came dark days for ’ h Rugby . Dr . Hayman s brief period as too many sur vivors to- day to allow of l dl discussion . Numbers fe l sa y , and a famous j est in P unch at the expense of is Rugby known to most of us . The blame for all this may be justly a pp or tioned is one day but the time not yet .

But the School suffered and survived . M r e ro undo cl ri it e s s a or even . p f , Under ’ - Dr . Jex Blake s guidance (himself an 1 O . R . who won the Crick of 850) recovery w as swift and permanent . His acts and all w that he did , ith the acts of Dr . l of Perciva (now Bishop Hereford) , from 1887 1895 to , and of Herbert Armitage f ’ o . James (the President St John s , O 1895 1909 xford) , from to , may not be told here . Some men are fortunate in winning their reputations while still serv ing their generation in various ﬁelds ; amongst such are counted all the three li — of ving ex Headmasters Rugby . A reference to the pages on the School Buildings will discover some extern al evidences of their administrations . The Dean of Wells altered the face of Rugby

HISTORY 31 in the matter of accommodation by h is unremitting energy the historian of the wh o w a s School , a boy under Percival , ri nemine contra dicente Of w tes , , the strong hand of that great Headmaster and Dr . James had established the fame of two other great Schools before he became the custodian of Rugbeian tradi tions , which only a year since he handed over undiminished and temperately braced to the present Headmaster , Dr . David , l of ate Clifton College , and no stranger to the School , where he was an Assistant 2 a ll Master from 189 to 1898. Of these ll the records wi in due time be written , l s and there wil be very much to et down . At the present time the School has 570 reached its highest possible number , , and no one desires to increase that . The abstract and brief chronicler must here l withho d his hand , and pass to other matters . CHAPTER II

THE SCHOOL B UI LDI N GS

I F anyone has for private reasons read the previous chapter he will have noticed scattered references to the Buildings which make up the outward and visible home of the School life . Here it is pro ’ posed to take a coup d ceil of the existing to mass of buildings , and trace briefly their origin and evolution . The photo graphs of them perhaps flatter one or other but that is no matter , if the reader does not know Rugby from within and if he does , then he can only see through f the eyes of habit and old a fection , to whose vision the crudest outlines a re softened and the harshest colours fall into harmony . For indeed the architecture of the School al has not been happy . We have ready al O sa tisfa c w ked through ld Quad , with tion , only to be unpleasantly arrested by its O flamboyant neighbour . But ld Quad l Old itse f has not been spared . The 32

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Ackermann pictures show it a much lower is O group than it now . n the East side there w as but one storey above the on on arches , directly the Quad ; the a ll South none at immediately over them , se the Dormitories being t somewhat back . Old Big School on the West had its own nl roof free to the skies , and it was o y in Tait ’ s time that the Arnold Library and Lower Bench School of to -day made two of or floors the North , Town , side . As ou ou y look up High Street , indeed , y see ’ H akewill s Gate and Tower much a s it - originally stood . The big oriel window fronting you on the first floor is the ’ ” Headmaster s Window (p . the chief of w a s L feature what once the ibrary , but has for long been the Upper Bench School . Probably no modern scientific inspector would pass it as adequate for the instruc tion of youth but no one who h as ever sa t on those narrow seats fixed round the ll on wa , and rubbed his coat to a polish the old deeply-carved table tops of former ll generations , that serve it for pane ing , could endure to have it other than it is . Scientific inspection cannot weigh im palpable association or subtle suggestion and cubic feet of air are neither the chief 34 RUGBY SCHOOL nor the most permanent element in O l education . ne change on y many — Rugbeians would wish to see the restora ’ tion to its ancient place of Arnold s chair and table , that now stand , most happily on inscribed in Latin , the stairs of the

Art Museum . Beneath it is the main entrance to O ld Quad . The remainder of the ground floor on this side is made up of two Schools (there are neither Class-rooms di - nor , in the strict i om , Form rooms of hi at Rugby) , one w ch is not unreason ably styled The Black Hole , and the ’ f Marshal s O fice . In this latter is trans acted an incredible variety of business O and the Marshal , ever since ld Patey Goulbum was first appointed by , is a functionary whose duties are of very great moment to the School . The present ’ holder , Patey s successor , has discharged them loyally for some twenty years , but for Patey worked more than forty , after his retirement still giv ing help in busy ” times . Porter , they call such a man at some Schools but he is more perhaps the celebrated obiter dictum of an inter ested party in a recent small case in the Assizes was not far from the mark

36 RUGBY SCHOOL the South side flank a series of schools stretching from the School House H all O ll 190 to New Quad . ne of these was ti 7 used as a most inadequate Armoury for the Rifle Corps , and at no time can have been even a respectable lodging for any o now F rrn over a dozen in number . It is ’ ll as a solitude , and they ca it the M ters O m . Roo ver these arches , making the whole South side roughly on a level with of the main tower , runs a storey studies - and above them bath rooms . The latter have very evil windows amazingly out of keeping with the whole scheme of architecture around them ; it is difficult to guess how these crept in when the bath-rooms were built only a dozen years or so back . Access to the School House Hall is gained from outside by a large arch , i l correspond ng to the main Schoo Gate , but only the privileged few— VI and other — ’ eminent persons have the entr ee the plebs must enter by a meaner door within . The plain oak of Hall serves its purpose all of 1816 well , and like the building has an appearance of immemorial antiquity much in excess of its years . To follow the ramifications of School

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House passages is not for the occasional so visitor , intricate and tortuous do they appear to all but their proper inhabitants . l all A ong them are the studies , such as the Houses have , though the School House dens (the Old Rugby word) are ll sma er than nearly all the others but , whereas the average Rugbeian must share a study for some three years with another boy (however often the pair may be al tered) , the School House has enough studies to give a single to most boys on after e year . And the School House has set the type to more recent Houses in this and many other matters . As you step down through the Cloisters that run between Old Big School and ou the Schools south of it , y pass a Notice Board devoted to the announcements of various School Societies , of which more will be said presently . You reach New ou O ll Quad , and if y are an xonian wi at once think of Keble College ; for both are the handiwork of Butterﬁeld . But K l l l whereas eb e , ike Rugby Chapel , wou d certainly be a ﬁne mass of buildings if one might obliterate the Italian of l streaks co ouring , yet New Quad could never be an impressive group . The East

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of - ll of O side it is the side wa ld Big , ’ l H a kewill s bui t of yellowish bricks , which l also form a bit of the North wa l . And then with a start , and no attempt at ’ Butterfield s blending , come striped l i a . s anom ies It , perhaps , better to refrain the pen , and refer the reader to the photograph Opposite , whose colours are al less ugly than the origin . But these many additional Schools could not be spared , and the Tercentenary Funds by their erection supplied a want that had grown urgent . To to cross New Quad , from South North , or to directly from East West , is not per mitted to any but Masters and visitors . The Masters ’ Path ” is the recognised informal meeting -place before and after on - - Chapel , and whole school days between fourth and fifth lessons for all Masters O located in ld or New Quad . There will always be contention about the outside appearance of Chapel , which rm of fo s the whole South side New Quad . ’ Butterfield s Its colours are , but so are its height and proportion . At the inside ll architecture no wise man wi cavil , whatever he thinks of the outside . A champion of B utterfield might argue

40 RUGBY SCHOOL variously shaped arches that always seems to be no little part of the charm of most

l . Cathedra s The great Chancel arch , the massive little arches that bear up the

1898 . clerestory , devised in by Mr Jackson , the two huge columns on either side of the West nave , and the slenderer height of those that separate the body of the di buil ng from the two transepts , contrast and blend with each other in a way that will be a delightful surprise to anyone wh o has been a little perturbed by his view Of the exterior . But not one brick or stone Of a ll this is ’ H a kewill s There is great unanimity about the ugliness of his Chapel and of later additions to the fabric only the - l ante chape , not yet mentioned here , survives . The present building , with the of exception the new West End , dates 1872 al from . Quite recently the st ls on S of either ide the West door , which belong ’ to Arnold s date , have been removed ; and new st al ls of better design have been erected as a memorial to J . W . J . Vec uera q y , for some forty years Modern O Language Master at the School. nly a brief account of deta ils is possible ul here , and the curious sho d refer to the

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handbook on the Chapel written by H . T . O R . wh . o Rhoades , , once a Master , has set out in full all that the Chapel holds of interest and beauty . The great West window wa s erected R 1 2 O . 90 wh o by an in , and those remem ber seeing it on some rare winter after noons , when a lingering red sunset has ll irradiated it , wi not readily hear it

dispraised . Beneath it , and over the main door , runs the Greek inscription . ’ Ev a v9 v en' l ‘TO ‘ ei coa' w Ol El ol/cov ¢p n ZS pm /J. s K “ vpio v n opeva oneﬁa r I was glad when w they said unto me , We ill go into of O the House the Lord . n the North side there are seen in order

the Crimean window , and a sixteenth

century window , possibly from Belgium . two These two , and the that face them the Indian Mutiny window and another

- sixteenth century work from Germany , representing Christ before Pilate— were 1898 lifted into the clerestory in , to the of f great increase the general e fect , though the memorial inscriptions beneath the two War windows have thereby become - illegible to all but the most keen sighted . Beneath them are small windows lighting of a ll one the new aisles and these , but 42 RUGBY SCHOOL on or the South side , have in the last ten twelve years been ﬁlled with stained glass f by di ferent donors . Both the transepts have large memorial windows that are too violent in colour for their surroundings . Particularly is this so in the South “ Goulbum transept , where the beautiful 1898 window , inserted in , is at most times Of the day sadly killed by its brilliant neighbours The work is in the charac isticall f K ter o . . y quiet colours C E empe , O R , and represents Christ blessing little i ch ldren . It has replaced an older window on the same subj ect which was becoming O seriously faded . nce again , late after noon is the time to see this window , for l a westering sun lights it up ﬁnely , whi e to of denying its aid those the South wall , and one may see the full beauty and dignity of the design . Three other windows demand separate notice . The Adoration of the Magi is the subj ect of the East window , which w a s brought from Aerschot , near Louvain , to by Dr . Arnold , and presented Chapel 1834 by the Masters in . The writer has been told that a replica of it exists in one of O the churches at Shrewsbury . n the South Chancel wall there was till a few

THE SCHOOL BUILDI NGS 43 years ago a window showing the Flight ” f R ’ o O. . s into Egypt , put up in memory i in Ind a . Its merits were at no time 1905 great , and when it was replaced in , its colours had begun to blur and coalesce in a manner quite ludicrous . Its successor is part of the South African War Me al mori , and an inscription below records the names of twenty-six Old Rugbeians wh o ll 1 99 - 1 2 fe in the war from 8 90 . By general consent the most beautiful of the older windows is that on the South wall nearest to the Chancel . It came from 1839 Rouen in , and is ascribed to the

sixteenth century . Whether the received “ title , The Presentation in the Temple , n is correct , Mr . Bradby has show good reason to doubt .

Of monuments there are not a few . ’ Ch a ntre s of hi y ﬁgure Thomas James , gh ll up on the North wa by the organ loft ,

has been mentioned , and is , perhaps , the ’ of best these . Boehm s monument to Dean Stanley in the North transept has hi also earned much praise , w ch cannot be said of the recumbent ﬁgure of Arnold ’ above it . Close by it is the Poet s

i for lli . Corner , w th three spaces meda ons Two of these have been ﬁlled with reliefs 44 RUGBY SCHOOL of Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh

ﬁttin l . Clough , g y enough The third

Rugby poet is W . S . Landor , but there is naturally a delicacy about commemora ting one wh o w as forcibly expelled from l . O the School University Co lege at xford , it is true , both sent down Shelley and subsequently built a distressing (as many think) monument to h is memory . It may be a different matter with Landor , though he seems to have owed more to O Rugby than Shelley to xford . Two other reliefs should be noticed in Chapel . Against the South door is a beautiful medallion of Archbishop Benson morte non ta m subita qua m opp ortuna obdor mivit and near the pulpit one of Arch w as bishop Temple , not as he in Rugby days (the bust in the Museum shows that) , nor quite as the present generation can remember him , Archbishop , and Chair f man O the Governing Body . Very many ri al memo tablets line both Chancel walls , full of names that were of honour and repute at Rugby , and not without fame in Church , State , or the Services , after

- school days were done . Some are in Latin , of others in English , most them felici O tous enough . n each is recorded the THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS 45

name of some Rugbeian who in one ﬁeld or l n another proved himself , in the g itteri g of one l sui Tacitean phrase tab et , rodi u e on m p g s t c te ptor . For years the organ has had a reputa tion as one of the best instruments in dl 1872 the Mi ands . It dates from , but used to be played from a keyboard on the

ﬂoor of Chapel , far from all its pipes . In 1897 it w a s moved to its present 19 10 gallery on the North side , and in it has been completed by the addition of was many new stops . Its original cost and almost as much more has been on spent its completion . It is now an exceedingly powerful instrument Of much l beauty , though its fu l power requires a larger building than Chapel to give it proper scope . We will leave the Chapel by the Masters ’ door under the organ loft , and turn to the right (past the drinking- tap much affected by Middle School boys in their interval between second and third lessons) , into the Close , the most distinctive feature of S the School . Its whole North ide is bordered by School Buildings , ﬁrst the old Chapel , then the Schools , the School House (including the Headmaster ’ s House) 46 RUGBY SCHOOL

’ and the Doctor s Wall , which bounds the School House Garden . Access to the Headmaster ’ s study is gained by a wind ing turret stair leading down to the — ’ Close ; over the box hedge on the Doctor s Wall are annually read out the awards of School Exhibitions at the end of the of Summer Term . The stretch gravel in front of the School Buildings has long been the parade ground of the Riﬂe Corps , about which more will be found on a one later page (p . From it sees the v whole se enteen acres of the Close , though the j udicious seeker after views will go to the far end , and look back to the School . Elm trees allow as much of the Chapel to is be seen as desirable , and if the season be Autumn , the Virginia creeper makes a beautiful addition to the old buildings . The unsuspecting visitor will admire the great Hall window of the School House , but he Should know that it is something Of not a fraud , inasmuch as it does form of one the window storey , as it appears of from the outside to do , but two . The Webb Ellis tablet in the Doctor ’ s Wall will be found explained in the chapter on football (p . of ll The trees the Close are sti its glory ,

48 RUGBY SCHOOL many pieces of furniture to Rugbeians as the True Cross furnished relics to pious persons of the Middle Ages . ’ Old Big Side is only half of the Close s northern end ; between it and the high road lie , first , Chapel Piece , and then Pontines ” (a name once due to its marshy nature , but long since undeserved) . These two supply fiery pitches to j unior of games cricket , and together make an on excellent reserve football ground , which most of the important games of O the Lent Term are played , while ld Big Side recuperates for a heavy season f - o cricket . At its South East corner a thick knot of trees crowns the famous ” sa w li Island , which , as we in Rebel on ’ l days and up to the Forties , real y earned O ll the name . n it sti stand a few gaunt of old- remains time gymnastic apparatus , but no trace is seen of the gardens which once unwilling fags were forced by the VI to till into some order and gaiety in time for Speech Day . At its foot stands O il the ld Pav ion , an entirely unpretentious ll of building , storied with the ro past ’ XI S School , nowadays chiefly the place where the XI and XXII keep their

- cricket bags , and where all may oil their THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS 49

l bats at the pub ic expense , and purchase or cricket material at their own , rather ’ their parents . In Summer Old Big Side loses its unity and is subdivided into Pa il v ion . Piece , Cross Piece I and II , and so on As w e follow the path southward from O the ld Pav . we leave on the left a of structure no beauty , the Town Room , which forms a rallying point for home boarders and others wh o have not yet passed from a Small House into their ultimate Boarding Houses . The large l l house j ust beyond it is Schoo Fie d , the best -looking building of all the Boarding 1 Houses . Beyond it again lie the old Courts . The Racquet Court , quite a beautiful building in comparison with

its excessively plain neighbour , is ﬂanked by three ﬁves courts Of a somewhat

Obsolete kind . Against its further side -ﬁv es are the bat court , and two more

Obsolescent ﬁves courts . The New Rac 1884 quet Court dates from , while a of Whole cluster new Rugby Fives Courts ,

with two Eton Courts , have been added

from time to time . Between School Field garden and the newest courts are stowed 1 For succession of Boarding Houses see List

on p a ge 59 . 50 RUGBY SCHOOL

l l away the new Science Schoo s , bui t in 1 4 old 90 . Their exterior (it is the tale at Rugby) has few merits and some not defects , but their interior is unhand some , and is extremely well equipped for its own purposes . The Old Cricket Shed was removed some twelve years ago to give Space for fives courts but room has been found recently for an eighteen yards Miniature Rifle Range in an Odd corner of the ground . A path runs westward from the New Racquet Court behind the row of trees f always briefly spoken o as The Limes . il It leads to the New Pav ion , which has S no architectural ambitions , and O to the m fine i Gy nasium . This is a build ng , re-fitted al of recently , with a great de space for all manner of different exer cises . We remember a certain magazine some years back printing a photograph of of it , among other views the School , and writing beneath it “ The School ” Chapel ! But this was hard on the

l a ll l l . Chape , with its externa fai ings

Beneath the Gym . are the School work shops . Close by stand two covered Eton

ﬁves courts , and a little to the North

- the Bath , which Dr . Jex Blake presented

THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS 51 to the School Rugbeiensis Rugbeien sibus in 1876 . The path thence back ﬂ to Chapel , anked by the Dunchurch ll Road , used to be and sti is occasionally ’ known a s the Scholars Walk . It will be convenient to leave the Close N E at its . . corner by the White Gate its ( invariable name , formerly descriptive , — now a euphemism) and to stand at the angle of the Barby and Hillmorton Roads . Set obliquely to this angle ri ses the surprising Tower of what common parlance - - fﬁ al styles New New Big , but o ci docu ” ments The Temple Speech Room . w a s 1 8 . This begun in 90 by Mr . T . G

Jackson , under the auspices of Dr . James ,

l . part y as a memorial to Dr . Temple As if by inevitable fate the same dis cre anc p y , already noticed elsewhere , exists between its inside and outside al features . The Tower cannot be c led h l beautiful , nor the elaborate facade , w i st the back end , only visible from far up the Barby Road , is undeniably an eyesore . But about the excellence of the l interior there can scarce y be two opinions . Its size is far greater than could be guessed di l from outside , and the vision of the bui d a s ing , it were , into the three sections of 52 RUGBY SCHOOL

i al Choir , Auditorium , and ra sed G leries , makes the whole look much squarer than w its actual dimensions allow . No one h o w a s present can forget the very striking scene when the late King opened the l 3 1909 w s al on u . a H l J y , It a great day ’ in the School s history , and a plate let into one Of the pillars permanently pre ’ serves a part of the King s words on that day . The organ , which migrated from 1886 the New Big School , still awaits an an adequate casing , but is in itself admirable instrument The tiers of Choir seats are vastly more comfortable than those across the road , and the platform has room for a large orchestra . The walls ll l oak are pane ed simply and wel with , on which the paintings of Headmasters and distinguished sons of the School Show up particularly well . Only two of the

Windows carry stained glass , Dr . Arnold ’ standing in Doctor s gown in that of the h is North Transept , w ile opposite him the imaginary portrait of Lawrence Sh eriffe as he might have been , and as there is no positive evidence that he w a s ’ not . Beneath Arnold s window hangs his portrait , and in front stands the Arnold bust , once intended for Westminster

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l piteous ook , shorn of its organ , and presenting the somewhat dej ected air al l of the casu ly emp oyed , until it shall be decided to what uses the Hall shall be put . Meanwhile examinations of various kinds occupy it from time to time . ll Tucked away behind it , and not fu y seen from the road , is the new Armoury , the maj or part of the South African War 1 7 90 . Memorial (see p . erected in It hl is thoroug y adequate to its purpose , al containing a centr hall , surrounded by - arm racks , a gallery lined throughout

- with pigeon holes for uniforms , orderly - room , stores , and cleaning room . The panels afford good space for records of all k - ri inds , and a gold lettered insc ption b of lazons the origin the building . House names are not so lasting as House traditions , and for convenience the Houses shall be here called by the names of the Masters wh o held them at the end of this f present year o wr iting . (Changes are l l ill occasional , and the comp ete ist w on As be found page 59 below . ) you go up the Hillmorton Road from the School

House , the Houses are , in order , G . F . ’ ’ Br db s a . l y and St Hill s on the eft , on

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’ the right Whitelaw s , and beyond it ’ Wilson s . The ﬁrst on the Barby Road ’ ’ l B ra db s is Steel s , a most opposite H . C . y ’ School Field further on Dickinson s , ’ S lla rd s and between the two roads ta .

The tenth house is the Town , whose ubiquity renders it impossible to give it a deﬁnite local habitation . The School

House has been described already . The tale of buildings is not yet com lete m p , however Between Speech Roo ’ set and Steel s , back from the road , stands the Temple Reading Room , and over it the 1879 Art Museum , built in as yet another ’ memorial to Temple s reign . The whole building is normally referred to by Rugbeians as The Bug -a word whose

etymology is intricate enough , but not 1 insoluble . The Library is large and

constantly growing , being used by the

1 Appa rently th e N at ur a l Histor y Museum “ ” w as ﬁr st alle Th e B u th e art ein ut c d g, p b g p for th e Wh ole a s s e imens of th a t a nima l re , p c p

sumably found a pla ce in its collections . Th e Viv a rium of livin anim als analo not g , by gy v er al se w as th en st le for istin tion th e y f , y d , d c , L iv e B u th e art ein a s e ore ut g ( p b g , b f , p f r w h l h H . S . u d o th e o e) th en t e N . M seum a n Libr ar y were furth er par ticulariz ed as th e Dea B u th e a e tiv e is w e eliev e d g ( dj c , b , 56 RUGBY SCHOOL

School to a very remarkable extent . Space fails to record even the chief ’ obj ets d a rt in the Museum but a glance at the photograph facing this page will of l indicate the nature some . Burg ars hav e at leas t once been tempted by them in modern times . In front of the

Library , looking out over his beloved ’ Close , stands Mr . Brock s admirable hi w te marble statue of Thomas Hughes , unveiled by Archbishop Temple in 1899 . Its conspicuousness may surprise the stranger wh o expects to read on it the name Of some man in the very ﬁrst rank i Of publ c life . But the position is not too notable for one who expressed and exempliﬁed most of what is best in the l is of ife Of Rugby School . It the Mecca many Americans interested in English education . The Drawing School adj oining dates 1 of from 888. A former historian the School points out that it is fortunately screened by trees . ’ Stallard s The Sanatorium , between and a ur a te a nd th e T em le L i rar a nd Museum cc ) , p b y “ borrow ed th e title and be came Th e T emple ” B u or ener all Th e B u We h av e g, g y g . ev en h ear th e term H u B u e d o se g us d .

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Regular observations of double stars have been here taken for years . The last building to notice is the Physical Laboratory on the Hillmorton n of Road , squatting u der the shadow the w a s a s new Speech Room . It built a 1894 temporary abode for scientists in , and being largely of corrugated iron has been long known as the Tin Tabernacle . It is much to be hoped that it may one day be replaced by a more sightly build i ing . Meanwh le its serviceable tin and wood shelter the Library , Museum , and Lecture Room of the Natural History of Society , as well as a number contending musicians who practise their instruments in a number of contiguous cells less sound proof than they are meant to be . As Rugby was the ﬁrst great public School to establish science in its normal curri culum (under Dr . Temple) , this is not a ui n very worthy b ldi g . Besides the Close there are two more or playing Fields . More less between ’ ’ ’ " Stalla rd s Caldecott s Wilson s and lies , a piece of eigh t acres presented to the School in 1886 by subscription in memory of O an ld Rugbeian . It has room for three or football grounds in winter , and six

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Bar R oa Hillmorton Roa by d , d , i e h i e Ea st s d . Sout s d .

Crest ! Cross . Crest ! Sta r .

2 Anste . r . 18 . C Moo 8 y 1790. . -Smith oor Bow en H . C M . 1 4 . . . 85 d . 1803. J

189 1 . Steel. 2 Bir 183 . d .

Ma or . 184 1 . y

Wilson. 1863.

Wh itelaw . 1879 . Hillmort on R oa d , i N orth S de . Hillm or t on R oa d A C est nch r . r o South side .

Bra le . L ea es a k v . 1845. d y Crest ! O

- ex Bla e . 1 58. Pow lett . 8 J k 1836 . l E see . 186 . tton . 8 1840. Co 1 Collins 889 . . Com ton . 1850. p

19 . . Bra . 08. G Sm th ies . F dby 1858. y

Anste . 186 1 . y l 2 Mo er . 186 . b y ll 1874 . Phi otts Hillm or ton R oa p d , - 1 75 Lee Wa rner . i 8 . Nor th S de . i M r e . 4 . o - - 188 c Crest Fleur de Lys . - 1895 Pa ne Smith . Hi h t . y 184 on. 1 . g i n W lso . 1902 . Burr w s 1852 . o .

H r n Cre ent . 2 re n . o t o s 187 . G e c

1 2 Mi h ell Cr est ! Tudor R ose. 88 . c .

1 1 Hill 93. Sta llar 9 St . . 18 0. d CHAPTER III

SP ORT S AND I N STITUTI ON S

THE interests that make up the life of a schoolboy of this century are extremely various , and by no means confined to games pure and simple , however much conversation may tend towards these i di latter . The games w ll be scussed sa presently , but first it is well to y some thing oi occupations not primarily ath letic i l l , wh le the actua work is detai ed in a separate chapter . The Natural History Society was 1867 ll founded in , and fifteen shi ings make l l a boy an associate for his who e school ife , while later on he may aspire to be one of l the fifteen members , chosen for zea and efficiency in one branch or another of ’ the Society s work . Fortnightly through out the two Winter Terms there is a lecture on some scientific or quasi ll ll scientific subj ect , usua y i ustrated with lantern slides , and quite Often given by old members of the Society and occa sionall 1909 y by boys in the School . In , 61 62 RUGBY SCHOOL

for example , the whole programme was

‘ carried out by Old Rugbeians . The associates of the Society include a large of maj ority the whole School , whose attendance at meetings is p urely v olun or tary . In the Summer Term four ﬁve - f half holidays are set aside or expeditions . These are conducted by the various sections into which the whole is sub d — ivided botanical , zoological , geological , hi a rch itec entomological , photograp c , al— r tur whose labours are pe ipatetic , while the meteorological section is stationary and records the behaviour Of barometer ,

- thermometer , and rain gauge in Rugby . Each section has a member of the School as its Secretary , and to each a Master l belongs as wel . The expeditions are nl mai y by bicycle , but sometimes go further afield and it has been found by experience that the best flowers , birds , flints , moths , churches , and landscapes are nearly always in the neighbourhood of some inn where tea may be obtained when Research has induced weariness . TO many who love not cricket , and to w N H S d h o . . . some do , the expe itions are a welcome change and interest . Careful records are kept of observations in all

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On the alternate Saturdays from Octo ber to March the Debating Society , with 1833 records as old as , holds its meetings O in ld Big School . The President is a - ex-o icio Master , the Vice President ﬁ is the of Head the School , and the members on choose annually a Secretary , whom falls much of the labour of arranging debates .

If the subj ects discussed pursue , in the main , a not very wide cycle , the is only following the example of most of institutions its kind . The audience votes at the conclusion , the Upper School votes being more valuable than those o f l the Midd e School , and anyone may off in speak the paper . It is an valuable training for the occasional speech-making which leaves few men quite untried in after life , and the young and undistinguished may lift up his voice here , of as he often does , to the confusion the more distinguished veteran . Each year , on the occasion of the Cheltenham foot l a bal match , combined debate is held , in which the picked orators of both Schools amalgamate for mutual discussion of of O some topic general interest . f the ’ - O R s l twenty two . . in a recent Par iament , many must have ﬁrst learnt to speak SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 65

N l . H . S in Schoo Debates . Both the . and hold their meetings at p m . The hour before this is sacred to f 1 the Choir . This body o about 00voices h as one two practices a week , for the l one Chape Music , in preparation for the Concert which comes on the last Monday of the Trinity and Advent Terms extra practices for the different voices are usual . Little that is ambitious is attempted in l l Chape , hard y any Anthem being given save the Let us now praise famous ’ on men for Founder s Day , November lst . But the Concert Music aspires far O higher , ratorios being frequently learned , alternately with such choral works as - those of Stanford , Coleridge Taylor , and O of Parry . The School rchestra , strings , wood , and wind , supports the Choir most ably , and both bodies are excused certain work (the Choir avoiding Lines or a ” of O part their Copy , and the rchestra abstaining from an afternoon lesson (on

Monday) for their musical labours . There is never any lack of soloists , though no K Oa kele O but Sir H . S . y has attained great fame as a composer ; yet J . E .

a nd . l Barkworth S H . Nicho son are organists of repute ; and not a few 66 RUGBY SCHOOL compositions by members of the School have been performed in Chapel or at the al Concert . The Brass Band is not de t ’ of Ofﬁcers with here , being a part the

Training Corps (p . There is an annual House -Singing Competition both in Quartets and Unison Singing , the latter being usually known as the House

Shout .

The two small Literary Societies , Anon mi l Eranos and y , are practical y confined to the Upper and Lower Benches f o the VI respectively . Both meet l on week y Sunday evenings , the former chiefly to read and hear essays by its own members ; the latter, as a rule , to read together established works of literature . Each is a valuable adj unct to the of education the School . officered The Fire Brigade , by two of the

Masters , has a couple of members (at most) from each House . These learn the use of the Manual and Fire Escape , practising the latter by occasional ex f traction O Fags from dormitory windows . l di They give an annua splay in the Close , and about two years ago had a real ri on all l expe ence , a sm sca e , with a genuine ﬁre in one of the Houses . If

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wa s their knowledge shared by more , it

‘ would be all to the good . ’ Ofﬁcers as The Training Corps , in 1908 old the Riﬂe Volunteer Corps became , sa w has had a varied history . We its prototype at work in an earlier chapter I ts (p . continuous records begin in 1 . di 860 Dr . Temple scussed its forma ’ tion at the Masters Meeting , found the opinion much against it , and concluded “ al characteristic ly with the remark , Then we will try it Since 1868 it has had

Masters as Commissioned Oﬂicers . Of these there are now four , though more fﬁ are needed , and three Cadet o cers are of chosen from the ranks . Inclusive the Brass Band and Buglers the strength w a s 370 19 1 in the Summer of 0. Its activities - to day are manifold . There is a weekly l for compu sory parade thethree Companies , While the Band practises together twice a l week . Every term two Fie d Days are arranged with other Schools , and form no al ll sm l attraction , being usua y both l instructive and enj oyable , and a ways a relief from one or more morning lessons . For good ground is not available near o Rugby for man euvres , and therefore a longer or shorter j ourney by train is 68 RUGBY SCHOOL

nearly always necessitated . Each Term - there is an inter House competition , in which all members of the O T C . proper al must partake , in drill and tactic manoeuvres under House section- com v olun manders . The keenest Houses drill ta rily and assiduously for this competition .

A fine Shield is the prize , with the Drill Cup for the runners -up ; and another Shield goes to the winning team in a (voluntary) tactical Competition held twice a year , in which the competing Houses do theoretical work and map drawing from some ground with in reach of the School . of The kernel the training is , of course , Al Camp , held alternately now at dershot on and Salisbury Plain . The eight days of Camp are voluntary , but have for seven years now attracted over 100 of the Corps but epidemics have sadly damaged the two last contingents when the time l came . Promotion goes argely by atten a t dance Camp , and the first stripe is conditional on passing a test after instruc tion in a class held for th e first three weeks of each term . Under the new regulations no one may be promoted al l Corpor unti he has been to Camp , nor

70 RUGBY SCHOOL al most to a man . The Miniature Range on is soon to be reconstructed a new site , ’ of C aldecott s probably at the end , which will be better adapted for the Musketry hi of Course , w ch all members the Corps l are required by O . T . C . regu ations to -Riﬂe pass . The Service Range is two l n mi es away at Brow sover , and is far nl from good . It may o y be used up to 500 yards , owing to its lack of safety space , and is practically reserved for

Match Shooting and Bisley practice . The Shooting VIII w on the Ashburton 1907 1909 Shield in and , j ust missing it in 19 1 1906 0. , and being ﬁfth in In the two winning years the Veterans ’ Trophy also O fell to the ld Rugbeian team . The other two Ashburton successes were in 1 1 1894 ’ 86 and . The Cadets Trophy fell to the Rugby Pair for the second and 1905 1906 third times in and , the Spencer Cup twice (in 1889 and being secured by the same marksman , G . li Richardson . Nobody fami ar with Bisley records need be reminded of the Shooting ’ f Ca rsla k ri o . e fame J . B (Queen s P ze ’ r man , A . P . Humph y (Queen s

Prizeman , and P . W . Richardson for of l (captain some time the Eng ish XX ,

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19 1 . 0 sonorous concerts at times In , when the Chapel organ w a s h ors de comba t , it incurred both criticism and glory by playing the hymns for the services on Sunday afternoons .

As we turn to athletics proper , we can nl a o y begin with Football . Wh tever the on keenness Cricket may be , the summer game can never appeal to so many boys as F l Rugby ootball , at least in the p ace which has given its name to what the sporting papers are wont to call the ” ll carrying code . How Rugby Footba w as u evolved is a nice point , f lly can ’ s hl v a sed in Sir H . F . Wilson s pamp et

OR . published by the . Society But tradition says that a certain William Webb Ellis was the daring spirit who first took the ball in his arms and ran with it His fine disregard (vide the inscripti on) for the rules of the game apparently met with no more immediate approval from his contemporaries than r - any flagrant inf ingement to day . But R ’ l the O . Society s mural tab et in the Doctor ’ s Wall has crystallized the tradi tion ; and mural inscriptions from the days of the Hittites or Assyrians have been the accepted sources of history .

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may be down for the afternoon . The modern rules are faintly observed , and it is not uncommon to have well over 100 players on the ground . A few years ago , w a ll some g introduced a second ba , the confusion being undiscovered for some ll while . Scrummages occasiona y grow as protracted as any of the Old School l S l cou d desire , and the pectators are iable to j oin in at any moment that the “ Island ” ’ l or ll al goa , the Doctor s Wa go , as the ll case may be , is in danger . Ti ten years ago the Old Rugbeian match and the Distinc Sixth match (VI v . the School tions were played on this plan ; but 1 - now they both are 5 aside games . The R w ’ O . a s 1 on . match in 900put Founder s O 20 Day , ctober , to add solemnity to that feast . But there was no reason to “ keep October 20 in pia m memoria m Funda toris nostri for no one knows the of date his birth , and he died in Septem l st ber . Now November had long been -l a red etter day with Rugbeians , the 9 Fox Memorial celebration (p . 7) always taking place then . Six years ago Foun ’ der s Day wa s arbitrarily but reasonably ’ All now moved to Saints Day , which becomes an occasion of great note . The SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 75

Fox Sermon is preached in the morning , ’ O R lst 2ud KV s the . matches ( and ) occupy the afternoon , and in the even ing all work is excused for some or entertainment other . Big Side (when not a place) is a term applied at Rugby to all institutions di where the whole School , as stinct from

. of . any one part it , is represented Accordingly the ﬁrst football game of l the Schoo is Big Side , just as in Summer the best twenty -two cricket players form

Big Side . There is frequently a second

Big Side for the next thirty players , and upon occasions , third , fourth , and

even ﬁfth Big Sides have been played . Unless there are House matches or is ll Foreigns , there usua y a Big All wh o Side . are not playing in it are occupied with their various “ ” sa Houses in Belows , that is to y , ’ a match between the KV S of any two of Houses , less their Big Side players that ’ KV S f day . The second o the Houses play

- Two Belows , with occasional Three ﬁft - Belows but Houses of y two boys , with

three or four fellows on Big Side , cannot often muster forty-ﬁve players for three ll s l fu game , except it be the Schoo House 76 RUGBY SCHOOL

with its eighty members . Accordingly a makeshift arrangement known as Rem h as i of nants been dev sed , in default a ll better , wherein the unoccupied sma boys of three or four or more Houses are somehow divided into two sides , which conduct a perambulating conversazione , al ll ll varied by occasion spe s of footba .

Now and again there will be no Belows , and a House will have a pick-up game of L i its own ittles de . , which is then called a

The School House , for instance , has a Littleside on most days , even when

Belows are being played . Belows are Counting Belows or Bosh Belows according as they are or are not t o count in the subsidiary competition for the best Belows - team in a series of inter House games . In 1909 a Young Guard ” was formed (as it has been at Cricket these ﬁfteen years and more) conﬁned to boys under sixteen , of and irrespective House , chosen simply ll or for ski promise . The Young Guard is , for S in fact , a Big Side those under ixteen , and receives some coaching from one of wh o or the Masters help in the Football , Th e from one of the School XV . name is given by contrast with the Old ’ of ll Guard , the title the Masters Footba

SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 77 or Cricket teams but it is long since the Old Guard could draw solely on the Staff for its XV, though it regularly raises an XI to play several cricket matches in the of second half the Summer Term , when it may be expected that the chill May so al winds , inimic to increasing years ,

ll . sha have ceased to blow Very wisely , Football is practically compulsory for all , whereas the VI and Upper School (after their third Summer) may abstain from Cricket . The discrimination is just . l If you dis ike cricket , it is a boring and undi nified g , possibly humiliating , occupa i wh o tion . But the boy does not ex st is not sometimes stirred to enj oymen t of a Rugby scrum ; weight and years help to make al most anyone of al a s on some v ue a player , whereas the cricket field they may only add to h is miseries . Cock House match was till 1900played In for no visible reward . that year a magnificent cup was presented ; but that could hardly increase the ambition of every Rugbeian to be in a Cock House all on two XV . Footb goes through of thirds the Easter Term , Foreigns being ’ still played and second-house XV s forming 78 RUGBY SCHOOL

the chief competition , but no dis tinctions are conferred after Christmas . These distinctions in dress vary consider a i ably . The XV wear white j ersey w th the ” School Crest worked on it blue shorts and black stockings . Caps (about twenty more beside the XV) wear white S i horts , and j erseys w th their various -u House Crests , and the following p of cap Of their House , the usual Rugger of or type , made velvet with gold silver braid and tassels . The XV wear a red - - on white and blue ribbon their straw hats ,

Caps a crest on their ordinary ribbons . Below the Caps come Flannels (p erhaps twenty of these) wh o wear black w stockings , ith a crest on the straw hat , and gained their name from the privilege n w of weari g ﬂannel trousers , hile others wore duck . In Rugby idiom a boy gets , n t ﬂ o his annels . All , but his bags these distinctions are conferred by the O or of Captain of the XV . nly two three “ ” the Foreigns are watched by the whole or School (for example , the Uppingham i Cheltenham match , wh chever has the turn to be played at Rugby , and the ’ A- Varsity team) , whereas to absent oneself from watching a Football House-match

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as k in most cases is to for trouble , far more so than in cricket . House feeling l is a very excel ent thing , but it sometimes replaces School feeling unduly not that we would see the rank and ﬁle of the School as idle spectators more often than is necessary far from it . In the early days of the Rugby Union the School supplied many players to the Guille International teams , such as A . G . mard , F . Stokes , F . Tobin , F . W . Isher l wood , A . T . Michel , and many more ,

s . . besides its first Pre ident , A Rutter all f Da k ns o . . But tradition speaks C S y , wh o 1868 n left in , as the fi est player ever on seen the Close , with F . E . Speed a good 1880- 1899 second . From only five ’ R s O . . seem to have figured in Inter al nation s , but since then V . H . Cartwright and A . D . Stoop have both captained l ll K England , whi e E . W . Di on (the ent L K cricketer) , W . . Y . Rogers , N . ennedy ,

G . D . Roberts , F . M . Stoop , and R . W . ul all Po ton have been capped , in some led cases several times over . Cartwright 1900 a remarkable School side in , and 1907 the team of , under the j oint cap t of ainc l . y Pou ton and C C . Watson (wh o together made a wonderful wing on 80 RUGBY SCHOOL

- li the three quarter ne) , had a great run s nin of successe , win g every match except one against a very strong Old Rug . team . The organization of cricket is in almost r l m as ll eve y particu ar the sa e in Footba , s Foreigns , Big Side , Counting and Bosh or Two- n Belows Belows , You g Guard , Littlesides all i , and Remnants be ng repro d iece de r esista nce uced . The p is of course the Marlborough match at Lord ’ s at the ll end of the Summer Term . Rugby sti s i holds a lead in this conte t , wh ch began 1855 S in , and has been played ever ince with five omissions , two being due to rain 1 and 1 9 1 1909 19 1 in 888 8 . In and 0 i matches were played with Cl fton , and l the game wil probably become a fixture . - r The first was a heavy scoring d aw , the n second a most exciti g tie . In the Jubilee year 1887 and 1897 the School played (and defeated) Clifton and Uppingham 1858 respectively , and in an XI from n Harrow . The games in the Close , si ce ’ l not so the evelling of Benn s , are nearly ll crowded as they used to be , though sti di the fiel ng sides overlap in places , and wh o the slow bowler , works havoc among of the nervousness House matches , has

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captains , but to play in a Foreign at either ll game , automatica y confers the ﬁrst of the three distinctions in the cursus h m n onoru . Nets is a term unknow at ” Rugby ! they are called Ends . The Twenty-two Ends are reserved for mem bers of the XI and XXII with a few of more . All Ties and members the ’ L last year s House XI , use the ime Ends (which run along the Limes at the South end of the Close ; but quite possibly the Lime and XXII Ends will in future exchange places , the experiment having worked well in July , Below Ends and Young Guard

Ends explain themselves . The latter are attended by a Professional wh o of coaches the members the Club , under of one the direction of the Masters . The post of Professional to the XI was l ong held by the famous bowler , Tom For Emmett , of Yorkshire . the last two all- years the round Lancashire cricketer , Cutt ll . e W . R , has been in charge , and promises to do extremely well . He receives much assistance from two or three - l Masters , and has an under Professiona to assist him in the bowling and coaching . One of the best bowlers turned out by

84 RUGBY SCHOOL written of the game in more countries than some of us could locate on the 897 . . . 1 map E R Wilson , captain in , did for great things Cambridge , and often ll represented Yorkshire . E . W . Di on is the present Kent leader ; and as School captain in 1900 he scored a remarkable century at Lord ’ s against time to win the Marlborough match with a few minutes to spare . A . E . Lawton did not h as play for the School , but since cap t i d in a ne hi . Sta nn Derbys re , and J g (captain 1896) has represented Lancash ire as well as Cambridge . Such are some of the better-known ’ cricketers , though many a Varsity Blue and player of distinction elsewhere has ’ not ll been named . Since Di on s time , dl however , har y any Of the XI have - attained to First class Cricket . - Cross country running , if not invented at Rugby— for it is so obviously natural a sport that it must needs have sprung up in many places— was at least systematized and made a School matter at Rugby ﬁrst of all Schools . There are traces of it in the eighteenth century , and the continuous records of Big Side Runs date from the ’ ﬁrst year of Victoria s reign . All the SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 85

of - thirteen Big Sides to day , except ll ” the Hi morton , go back to about

- that time . Paper chasing over an unknown course has been practised from of time to time , but the characteristic Rugby running h as always been the f permanent course o each run . As their grandfathers toiled up Barby Hill in their or white ducks , stumbled into the ” on Watling Street brook the Crick , so toil and stumble the present generation , learning like them the secret of hanging on when every inclination of the mind — and body cries for rest a lesson learnt only in Football so well as in Cross - country r of unning . No longer is the capture the — Hares the prime obj ect for these are nowadays merely base mechanical toilers who lay a trail of paper to guide the — ignorant or the stranger nor do the

Runs end at Public Houses . The thirteen ﬁxed courses were ﬁrst described

1 58. in print by L . N . Prance in 8 He held Big Side Bags in that year . Subsequent revisions have much im al proved the book , and in its ﬁn form 1 2 . 90 (edited by A . R Welsh in ) it is a a dmir very accurate guide , furnished with - r able large scale maps . Each Easter Te m

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al of run about h f the Big Sides are , and in this way it is hoped that no particular course may become obsolete . From 1881- 1892 a House-Running Cup w as for l competed , but it entai ed cer tain undeniable ev ils . Each House had l to send in eight runners , and the resu t was wh o constitu that not a few, were tionally or temporarily unfit for the ai - an str n of long dist ce racing , took part own to their inj ury . We cannot regret of - the abolition the system , but to day the pendulum has swung too far . A field of forty for an ordinary Big Side (times are taken a nd published in the Meteor) is i -fiv e qu te exceptional , twenty being a fair a v efa e g number . Partly this is due to a of ll the incre se other recreations , especia y in the multiplication of fives courts ; partly it is pure valetudinarianism on the part of boys not addicted to energetic exercise , aided and abetted by parents - wh o on and home doctors , relying the obiter dicta of ill -informed letters to the newspapers , have a quite unj ustifiable f notion o the strain involved . All reason able precautions are taken at Rugby , no boy under sixteen being eligible for Big

Side Runs , nor under seventeen for the

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1889 in must stand for ever . As a fact ,

. l . i A R We sh , the Cambridge m ler and

- Cross country Blue , beat this comfortably 1901 or in , and three four others have done the same since . The record now i 1 . rests w th R . W . Dugdale , who beat hr 13 1908 min . in , after a magnificent race ’ i rm w th S . E . Swa , the loser s time being better than all previous records except ’ Welsh s . On all days when Football is interrupted or finished for the season House Runs are the normal occupation all wh for o cannot evade them . The Athletic Sports take place at the of end the Easter Term , being managed by ’ ex- o icio of five stewards , all fi (the heads the School , School House , XI , XV , and one Running VIII) if needed , is elected é i by a Big Side Lev e (p . The w nning

House secures the Wrigley Cup , the two most successful individuals respectively the Athl etic Cup and the Second At hletic

Cup . The grass track of New Big Side does not provide very good times as a rule (largely because very little systematic ’ L B ul ett s practice is done) , but C . W . . p g m l 4 3 sec . i e in min. 9 is a good record - 187 1 . . dating from , and E L Gay Roberts - i 1 1 h as no t 2 . 90 half m le in min 6% sec . ( ) SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 89

ll- since been approached . Such we known performers as M . J . Brooks (who jumped

4 O . 6 . . ft . in at xford) , and W H Whitelaw, the Oxford long-distance winner against Cambridge on several occasions (both across country and on the track) did not make their reputations till they were

Besides Welsh , the best known R f D. athletes o recent years have been - O K . L . E . Gay Roberts at xford , and ll l Powe , the Cambridge Hurd er , who did

16 sec . more than once , besides captain ’ ing his Varsity at Lawn Tennis . The Steeplechases are held on the Clifton

Brook , and tend to be a far less exacting and watery course than formerly , though l counting heavi y for the Athletic Cup . “ ’ l al But er s Leap has , as been destroyed F r by road improvements . o three years now cups have been abolished (except Challenge Cups) a s individual prizes in l the Sports , meda s being substituted , hi w ch are cheaper , uglier , and wholly l useless , whereas cups cou d at least look nice on a mantelpiece , and might hold

ﬂowers , if desired . The game of Racquets is closely associated with the name of Gray at as Rugby , elsewhere . Joseph Gray , the 90 RUGBY SCHOOL

al champion , was the School Profession 1868- 1894 from , sending up a winning ’ 1 7 pair to Queen s in 8 0 (H . W . Gardner His son and T . S . Pearson) . took over 1895 h is the post in , and in second season , 1896 , coached the only other Rugby pair that has won the Public Schools Champion - ship , W . E . Wilson Johnston and G . T .

Hawes till 19 11 . Often since he has sent al 1909 up Fin ists , and in C . F . B . Simpson w and F . A . Sampson ere only beaten by an odd point , actually scoring more aces

an . th the winners , Charterhouse Simpson ’ now has played at Queen s five times , which is a record , his fifth appearance , with W . H . Clarke , ending in success . The first - O New Court is quite rate , the ld

Court , in its restored condition , very fair indeed . The Club is composed of the or al first twenty so players , of whom h f a dozen at the top are called the Six . These wh o Six compete for the Pair , alone wear any distinctions (white flannels and a j ersey trimmed with light blue , with on a crest the ordinary School blazer) , but all the first Six are subv ented p ecu nia ril R al O . y by the Society , which so gives money to promising youngsters .

The expenses are serious , but it is much

SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 9 1 to be wished that more boys would take up one Of the best of all games . ” The Junior Prize is a racquet given every term by the Headmaster to the - best under sixteen player . The Pair plays a number of matches , including contests with Malvern and Cheltenham . f - There is no lack o Fives Players . Of these the maj ority play the Rugby game , - all un- in the four w ed , buttressed court , 2 x d 9 19 ft . whose latest imensions are , v - with the ser ice board at 29 inches . The four Eton Courts are used , but a good - deal . as is a ller al a p the slogging r lies , not unvaried by crafty placing , having always been far more popular in Rugby than the ﬁnesse and surprises of the Eton game . For some years past a Fives Pair has been annually selected by i competition . The Easter Term s very full up with a series of School Ties in all the Courts games . A court is secured all by placing a piece of paper , c ed a ” mi note , inscribed with nute accuracy , after an ancient formula (clerical or textual error j ustiﬁes a later arrival in dishing the inaccurate note and taking al the court from the origin applicant) , on either a board , studded with pegs and 92 RUGBY SCHOOL

s appropriate numbers , be ide the Pump in Old or n Quad, in the grati gs of the r actual courts . In the Easter Te m , from 3 m nl p . onwards , a court can o y be booked in the name of one of the VI the result is that members of the Upper Bench are as importuned to give their names , a higher name can always dish a lower , and not infrequently an earnest but improvident player will assume possession

of . a name without leave Now , should l of the rightfu lessee that name , or even al the origin possessor , desire likewise to on take a court , litigation ensues the spot , the Racquet Professional is summoned as ri arbiter , and one hopes that ght triumphs no in more cases than t . Membership of the Gymnasium and Swimming Bath has always been v olun tw o ualiﬁca tary , but years ago certain q tions were introduced . Each new boy is now required to pass a Simple test in im sw ming , and if he fails , to learn swim ming from the Bath Superintendent , his 5 Bath subscription being 5 . a term but there is practically no bathing done except l m . O d in Su mer Swifts , the Avon l bathing place , is no longer even an il icit r esort , though there are certain reaches

94 RUGBY SCHOOL or frost has rendered the ground too hard for anything else . In March a good many boys will be found brook-jumping of a ﬁne afternoon . It may , perhaps , be ’ R re re O . s added that . have been well p ’ sented in the Varsity Boats of late . A cursory recollection of the last dozen

lls . . . Gr years notes H B . y , A L Lawrence

r m . . and S . E . Swa , at Cambridge , G C

Drinkwater , A . J . S . H . Hales , J . Dewar , i O and D . Mack nnon at xford , among ” w a s rowing Blues A . J . Swanzy an

O O . . xford Ninth Man , and D Filley stroked the Harvard VIII of 1906 . Almost all the games of the School have been at one time or another more or less lavishly aided by the Old Rugbeian 1889 for Society , which was founded in that express purpose . A few years ago its sphere w a s most wisely extended to include the advancement o f all matters of importance and interest to the School .

Thus , quite recently , the Society has generously assisted the School Mission , the ’ Ofﬁcers O Training Corps , the rgan Fund , and other obj ects of moment to some or other section of the Rugbeian body . The members now number some 1 - and as £ constitutes life membership , SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 95 very few leaving boys fail to j oin the

Society . Its organization and success h as been almost wholly the devoted work of w R . h o for ri O . Mor s Davies , , ﬁfteen years resided in Rugby and spared neither time not trouble to further the interests of the

Society . He most unfortunately found 1908 it necessary to resign in , and his successors (no one man could take ov er the whole of his work) can only try to main tain his traditions Annual subscribers of t are great value o the Society , and if they subscribe 205. they receive the Meteor and the Calendar as a small return for their loyalty . By degrees the d Ol Rug . Society (the abbreviation is

O . common to ld Rug match , etc . , etc . ) grows more representative of the whole

Rugbeian body , and its colours (dark and light blue and green) are well known all over the country . The Meteor has been the oﬂicial School

1867 . l paper since It eschews iterature , conﬁning itself to a veracious record of all

School activities , introduced by an Edi torial . Twelve or thirteen numbers are issued in the year under the Editorship of of wh o the Head the School , has in this work one of the heaviest items of his 96 RUGBY SCHOOL

is numerous labours . Its circulation ensured by a ﬁxed charge in all School of Bills , out which the Editor and his tw o assistants receive a well -earned salary Of 13 5 in 10 . . £ between them _ the year Many other occasional Magazines have of l given evidence iterary talent , but as w a have generally died young , is the y Ru b Ma a z ine of 1835 of such . The g y g , on 24 already referred to page , was fol in 1840 Ru beia n lowed by the g , subsequent periodicals being the Rugby Miscella ny a reviv ed Rugbeia n (1850 N ew Rugbeia n (1858 and N ew Rugby Ma ga z ine (1864-5) Two more recent School papers are on the Library shelves and have almost attained the dignity of al 1877-8 loc Classics . In the initials T ” f V. W. o . hid the editorship a paper ’ famous for A . Sidgwick s Herodotean history of Rugby , and only after long continued mystery w a s the key found

Two Venturesome Wilsonites . The Lea et 1883-6 Sib l ﬂ lasted from , and the y deserved its record career of six years (1890 The last decade has seen the al of La urentia n Lulu rise and f l the ,

(only one number , much in request since its suppression , and only to be bought

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Notting Dale . The Club presently ex anded so p , after rough times , as to include ’ O a Men s Club . Besides the ld and Young ll Guards , as they are usua y called after ’ wa s the idiom of the School , a Girls Club 1905 attached to the Rugby Clubs in , but is not under the management Of the Bir in School Mission Committee . A m g ham branch ﬂourishes side by side with the London Clubs . The Rev . F . Meyrick Jones made a striking success of the work for 1 5 90 . eight years up to , when the Rev

C . S . Donald took over the work and di maintains its tra tions unimpaired . Recently the London premises have been enlarged as a memorial to the founder of the Clubs . The Annual Camp (one week each for Girls , Men , and Boys) has been for many years held at New Romney . Two years ago the School acquired several acres round an old Coast - Guard Station quite an ideal place for the purpose 19 10 S ’ and in , ince the winter s storms and an encroaching sea had damaged the - Old Coast Guard buildings irreparably , an excellent building w as erected under the R O . . direction of an architect , A . L N .

Russell , in which all has been arranged as experience of past camps suggests is SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONS 99

most convenient . Numbers of and always a fair sprinkling of present

a f . Rugbeians , act as the C mp Sta f In 19 10 some ﬁfty men and ninety boys from the slums of Notting Dale were n u der canvas . The funds are entirely obtained by subscriptions , in which the

School , through the energetic medium of

House Representatives , take an exceed in l g y frequent and generous share . Every Summer Term a s many as possible of the Londoners come down for a week- end at Rugby , sleeping in the Gym . , playing l cricket and footbal against School teams , using the Gym . and Bath ceaselessly , and giving various displays (besides quite excellent part -songs on many occasions) at the General Meeting held in Big ’

School . Rugby House , the Manager s residence , near the Clubs , is a focus for w Rugbeians , here many visit , a few lodge , and too few live permanently . More of each are wanted . CHAPTER I V

THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL

FREQ UENT reference to the Houses nl has been made in these pages . U ess he be a Home Boarder The Town or waiting in a Small House of ﬁve or six boys for promotion into a larger , every boy belongs permanently , as elsewhere , to one or other of the nine

Boarding Houses , the boarding fee being ll a 24 . in cases £ a term Here he eats , sleeps , and generally lives The Upper School do all their preparation - work in their own studies , but the overnight pre p a ra tion of the Middle School is done under all supervision in H of each House . Under wh o every Housemaster is a House Tutor ,

of . shares the superintendence Prep , besides taking all members of the Classical Upper School twice weekly in the Tutor ” ll n Set , an institution practica y co ﬁned to of the study Homer , where no marks are competed for . (Whether this produces

s ul . de irable res ts , some have doubted ) Every boy is continually answerable to

WORK OF THE SCHOOL 101 his House Master in all out-of-school f — l h is a fairs for examp e , he must answer name at Calling-Over (invariably kno his C O. l as ) in House severa times a day , O 3 on al m. besides the School C . at p H f Holidays ; from Housemasters only can - be obtained the stopping out note , which excuses absence from School on the score of indisposition (indisposed for work is an adj ective requiring accurate discrimination) , and in a thousand and one details the Housemaster is the most ’ constant factor in a boy s life at School . The duties of the House Tutor are very hard to deﬁne . A reference to the story Di k l c (by G . F . Bradby) will te l the reader very much Of the customs and idiom Of of l the School , besides Middle Schoo hi ll psychology , and among other t ngs wi be found to explain that a House Tutor is the man wh o asks y ou out to tea on Sundays , and canes you if you are ” w lo for the week . Both duties are voluntary . As a matter of fact not all Middle School Boys do their evening work in Prep for in each form a ﬁxed number of boys (from ten in the Upper Middle I to one in the Shell) are out of and either 8 102 RUGBY SCHOOL

or l own e work id e in their studi s , as they on ﬁnd expedient nor is there any Prep . Thursday (the night given up to Con

Or . certs , Lectures , etc . ) Saturday Sunday

evening preparation , too , is done by one f out of o . self . This privilege being Prep for l is liable to weekly change , Midd e School Forms have a weekly order in all ’ on Form subj ects , and the past week s place depends a boy ’ s emancipation from

Prep . It is Obviously more comfortable sit - to in an arm chair , not without food , ’ and work as one s fancy dictates ; still h ot- pleasanter if the study has , not water pipes , but a ﬁre , as in half of the houses it does— than to balance on a wooden bench and at least simulate industry suﬂi ciently to hoodwink the invigilating

Housemaster or Tutor . Every Monday , the top boy Of the last week takes up the week ’ s Order to the Headmaster ’ s

Study , and signs his name in a register . It ’ is tradition al that six consecutive weeks headship is rewarded w ith half-a - crown from the Headm aster . On the Classical Side a boy wh o is top for the ﬁrst three weeks of a term is promoted into the

Form above , and popular speech declares h a s that Smith got his three weeks .

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Cl si a l Side as c . V I m er Ben h . or !Upp c F , Low er Ben h Pre osto c p rs . T h Tw n e e ty . r i h Uppe F ft . Upper L w r i A — w r i B l o e th . Lo e th . h F f F f Sc oo . r Mi le I A — Mi l I B e . er e Upp dd Upp dd . r Mi le II U ppe dd . w M I L o er iddle . L ow er Mi le II dd . Sh ell and L ow er h o l Sc o .

M de o rn Side.

V I rm Fo . Tw n e ty .

Fifth . L w r i th o e F f . r Mi l I Uppe dd e .

Upper Middle II . L w l — L w e l B r Mi e I A . Mi I o e dd o r dd e . w l Lo er Midd e II . h L w S ell a nd o er Sch ool . The normal abbreviations in regular

U . B or use are , in order , VI ( . XX , V U . M L . M or . V , 2 (A or B) , . I (A B) , I h L or L . M. S . S . (A B) , II , , and These initials added to each boy ’ s name in the termly Blue Book give his as correct place in the School , as well his Housemaster and Tutor , birthday , of m date entering , and For in which w a s he placed . This Blue Book is

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' a n a rduous one nowadays , but contains f For elements O salutary discipline . instance , a Sixth man may cane him for various offences (in some houses minor crimes , such as scrumming , are dealt of with by the smooth side a hair brush , ﬁ a most ef cient weapon in expert hands) , provided the Head of the House permits so l exer it , and even the fag has a rare y cised of l right appea to his Housemaster . He may be sent on messages all over the School ! in answer to the loud cry of F-A-A-A- G , he must run , whatever his occupation at the moment , to the S of pot , and may discover the meaning Devil take the hindmost for the last arrival does the j ob . Each fag has to clean out the study of h is fag-master daily for a week at a time . Many fags and few Sixth in a House means that each fag is only on a study every two or three weeks ; more Sixth and fewer fags obviously entails a more frequent servitude But the cleaning is p erfunc tory in many cases , though in Houses that have study ﬁres the considerable extra burden of lighting and tending these all day falls upon the study fag . Coat fagging has been explained elsewhere (p .

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certain Form in one Term and of reaching what he understood to be the haven beyond it ; and h is zeal overshot the O - mark . ) n the three whole school days hi of the week , w ch are frequently reduced for to two , a boy will be in school ﬁve of hours , and may have another four hours preparation in all (the Middle School has u six hours in and from two to three o t) . The normal First Lesson (preceded by Chapel ’ own at and C O . in one s School four minutes earlier) is from but a merciful remission comes into force about the end of November and continues of to the end February , at least , by which First Lesson lasts from to preceded by Chapel or prayers in Houses at The whole School is in simultaneously at First as at Fifth

Lesson . Second Lesson may be from a m l . . , or (Midd e School would have with no h preparation to do before and) . Third from or For all these preparation of work is required in the Upper School ; yet a surprising number Of boys ﬁnd (or used to ﬁnd) time for a Court between a late Second hi and a late T rd . An early Third

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ul of his by defa t , though he must , course , reach a fair standard of excellence , whether it be in Composition , Mathe ma tics , Science , Astronomy , Drawing ,

Music , Botany , Carpentry , and many other subj ects . But too few are too circumspect . The Scholarships , , are numerous and large . The maj ority are for Classics and General all - round one proﬁciency, but at least apiece is reserved for specialist ” work in Mathe

e . mati s , Science , and Modern Languages i The Green Book gives full deta ls of these , but the table of values may be set down here

Not less h a n 4 of 100 O en t o o s etw een t £ , p b y b

12 a nd 14 .

Not less th a n 2 of 80 o en t o o s etw een £ , p b y b d 12 a n 15.

N ot less th a n 2 of 60 O en t o o s etw een £ , p b y b

12 a nd 15. Not less th a n 2 of £40 or £20 Open t o boys be w e n 2 a nd t e 1 15. In 19 10 a Viva Voce Examination was instituted for all candidates selected for further consideration after a certain number of papers has been done . A number of Founda tionersh ips are given to sons Of parents living within five miles WORK OF THE SCHOOL 111 of Rugby and confer free tuition to maj or i e foundationers , . . , boys between twelve and fourteenwho have had two years at the f L h riff Lower School o awrence S e e . Minor foundationers are exempt from the last 20 clause , and get their tuition for £ per l annum . The o d foundationers are al very few, their qu ification being the residence of their parents within the five mile radius since 1868 ; no intellectual standard was required except that they should read English and be ca pa ble of being ta ught th e elements of gr a mma r ! Besides the Scholarships given to boys entering the School , there are leaving Exhibitions competed for by those leaving for any one of the Universities . In practice the candidates all go either to O Exh ibi xford or Cambridge . The maj or tions of £60a year for four years are three for al in number , and are given gener all-round excellence in the Oxford and

Cambridge Certiﬁcate Examination , which all the VI take every July . There are also several minor Exhibitions of £30 per annum for the best candidate in each of - the subj ects Classics , Modern L anguages , Mathematics , and Science . A boy holding an Exhibition with a 1 12 RUGBY SCHOOL

College Open Scholarship is going a very long way towards paying his own way ‘ at the Varsity . The whole School is i exam ned twice a year , in July and

December , and the marks count very ’ heavily towards the term s order , and consequently for promotion . And occa siona l promotion is an urgent necessity for Su erannua all below the VI , for the p tion rule is liable to come down like a guillotine on all who exceed a stay of one or w h o four terms in Form , are above the age limit for their particular f division o the School . Superannuation not is rigid , for that would be !a manifest m inj ustice . Extenuating circu stances of r of va ious kinds are taken into account , which the chief is undoubtedly general f excellence o character . Many a veteran lives on securely enough under the sword of Damocles if only his character prevents its fall ; athletic skill w ill not avail him f is in the default o that . Only in the XX a longer stay than four terms not only l a lowed but in a few cases enforced . For l scholars reach the XX early in ife , but are wisely not allowed to enter the w its l VI , ith privi eges and responsibilities , r until sixteen years Old o hard upon it .

WO RK OF THE SCHOOL 1 13

Their enforced delay in the XX can only of be beneﬁcial , seeing that the teaching the XX has for ﬁfty years and more been the pride of the School. A word or two of explanation should be given about the Lower School of

Sh eriffe . Lawrence The Founder , we sa w for loca l , meant his School chieﬂy N w . o boys , as the nineteenth century on di went , the or nary Public School — or education grew unsuitable for , at b — of any rate , undesired y sons trades wh o people in the Town , meant their boys to take over their business . Accord in l to g y , provide especially an education suitable to a commercial career , the Subordinate School — to give it its — 1878 l usual title was founded in , c ose to the great School . The ﬁrst Headmaster

w a O . R l s . . . H T Rhoades , ( ater a Master at

Rugby School) , and his successors have been H . V . Weisse and S . R . Hart , the present Headmaster The new School fulﬁlled its purpose and carried out the ' S not L pirit , if the letter , of awrence S ff ’ h eri e s scheme . The chief occasion on which the work of the School is displayed to the public is on Speech Day , held annually the last 114 RUGBY SCHOOL

Saturday of June . It coincides with the h ll O R . Cricket Match , w ich natura y of O brings down a number ld Boys , players and others . Parents of boys turn see up in strong force , some to their paragons clad in dress clothes and march ing up to receive prizes from the Head or master , acting in the English , Greek , and French scenes which are a normal feature of the proceedings ; others to hope that their at present undistinguished scapegraces may one day emulate these 1 feats . Until 909 it was impossible for more than half the School to be crowded in to the Speeches , but now in the Temple Speech Room there is room for visitors and School alike . Whether the Middle School regard this as a blessing is another matter . Beyond doubt it is a pleasure to parents (else wh y do they come to hear their sons praised in public for the Headmaster usually takes occasion to thank this or the other member of the VI h for valuable help . He as done the is State some service , and it good to hear “ that they know it . House Suppers j ust before Christmas are also gatherings of di accor ng to their Houses , and for celebration of noteworthy deeds

WORK OF THE SCHOOL 1 15 but theirs is an intimacy less solemn l f than the pub icity o Speech Day . Of the duties of the VI in maintaining the general discipline and tone of the

School , something has been said above . Those duties culminate in the Head of wh o the School , by invariable custom is the senior member of the Classical Upper

Bench . In general , he has to act as the intermediary between the School and the

Headmaster , and may often have to act f as the mouthpiece o either to the other . é He presides at Sixth Lev es , when matters of moment are discussed from é time to time at Big Side Lev es , where all the Upper School meets and votes on l or various points of policy , ath etic i l otherw se , and registers decisions on y subj ect to the Headmaster ’ s approval or one of mi veto he is the Games Com ttee , and keeps the account of all the Athletics of the School , paying the professionals di all ll and groundmen , scharging bi s incurred by the fund made up of School Subscriptions ; he appoints the Lesson ll of Readers in Chapel , and the co ectors f Meteor o fertories , edits the (p . and does a thousand Odds and ends of which the average boy knows little and cares 1 16 RUGBY SCHOOL

Al is l less . together he an extreme y busy person , and possibly has more to do ne than perhaps any o boy ought to have .

But he probably treasures the experience , and would not for any consideration forego the labours and anxieties of his position .

1 18 RUGBY SCHOOL would be no time for a proper Coffee 1 dl 2 Stodge , har y even to snatch a Fug in l 3 passing ; indeed , the Second Bel had was all 4 stopped before he down the ey . On a Friday this would have been all i Di ’ 5 r c . s ght , for when are in New Big , 6 there is no C O . in Form Rooms but as F rt it was Tuesday it was all wrong . o u m ately , however , his Form Master had . C O a s not turned up for , nor , far as l cou d be seen , was he in the group Of

Masters in New Quad . Chapel over at ’ the thoughts of Smith s Form turned with hope towards a cut 7 ; the minutes passed ; even was a ll reached , and arrangements were made for parties to be taken over each other ’ s Houses (only possible in the event of a e First Lesson or a Fifth L sson cut) , w ’ . a s to when Mr , everyone s dismay , s e en h a s t e n in g t h r o ugh Q u a d .

l . Gloomi y , the belated First Lesson began 8 Now Smith was left in second . He had been expected by his pastors and

1 i i 2 Th n rm a l i ui e o s t . B s cu ts and Coff ee . b c 4 ’ 3 m m o s Entran e to Fro a . B y c 5 D 6 ll- e Pr a ers r om icere Ca o v er . Hous s . y (f ) If th e Master is ﬁfteen minutes la te his Form B w n w nd in orm o r er e arts . i . e. as o 2 . d p , F d

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’ 1 H oble s for y a roll , though his lateness f made breakfast a hurried a fair . It was Smith ’ s week to fug out 2 the Head of the ’

House s study , however casually , and that postponed till h is purpose of going n 3 dow town . Just as he was about to ll 4 5 start , a Fag Ca again dished his ill 6 plans , and as he had a House Dr at there w a s no further chance . a 7 Fortunately he had Late Second , and 8 l for smal prep . it and the Early Third which followed gave him time and to spare 9 for a visit to the Tosh . Dinner at found him refreshed , and Smith mi . , in 1 0 ll no sense being a wreck , hopefu y ’ anticipated the afternoon s games . (The

wh o . House boys wait at dinner , etc , are , f l ll in di ferent Houses , various y ca ed Bilh a ms L Jerries , Blogs , , Joes , outs , i ses O n B u n . l gg , etc ) n ooki g at the Games L 1 1 1 2 ist he found himself in Three Belows ,

1 Sch ool Confectioner ; Of th e two sh o ps one is by t ra ditiona l usa ge only frequented - Bu s Sw ells rea l or sel h osen . by ck ( ) , f c 2 3 Cl a n Th e no rm al mornin rom ena e . e . g p d 4 5 5 7 . 108. . 6 . De e a . . te 8 p 106 . f d p p 9 9 1 ° i t er m for th e 1 1 . Ge ner 108. . 7 p . p c 1 1 h i a ll la r ee le Poste p ys c y s ck o f b . d by 1 3 f m . 75. House Hea d o Ga es . p THE TRIVIAL ROUND 12 1 which was perhaps more desirable 1 ’ than being bottom fag in Two s , as l last time , and a so gave him a chance 2 3 of C . C watching the Foreign before . , “ as his game wa s playing on Pontines ; and (again thank goodness !) he w as 5 l of - ll no onger the victim recruit dri s , nor , in virtue of the ceremony after

First Lesson , had he to go round and 6 h is on . sa C C . y c . Just before he found he had to go back to the House to for his pads , which he essayed do by l 7 the norma route of the White Gate , wa s which was , of course , locked , as there a Foreign . The time thus lost made him for C O late , and he only j ust scraped in f r C 8 wh o D . o second , after the four Sixth were walking 9 had given in their canes and the Master of the Week was coming down ” from the step . (He had twice already been late , but both times he had 1 1 contrived to get a note . )

1 m Wh o h a s to t a e u th e ne ess ar stu s etc . k p c y p , 2 m h i i n 3 ll- a ti am . a v r A a tc v . v s g te C o e a t m 4 5 5 . . 4 . 9 T r la . . ans tion 3 p p 8 p 6 .

7 3 - 1 . all v er f a n r m . C p 5 o o bse tees f o l st C D . 9 w l . in d w n r d t e . a u an o to ee o er an , k g p d k p d ui 1 ° h Old 1 1 e . B C t e ourts . . 1 q y t p 10 . 122 RUGBY SCHOOL

As it was Counting Games 1 his afternoon was moderately strenuous , but left him enough energy to go on an End 2 after ’ 3 out . six o clock tea . As he was of Prep there w as no desperate hurry after 4 ’ -u Lock p , and since his study companion s People 5 had been down for the week of on end , there was plenty food to go so with . After Prep . he had dealt faith fully by this that he had no heart for supper , and contented himself with getting a con from the other members of his hi Form j ust coming out from Prep . T s was naturally not far advanced when the ’ Di s- B 11 a s c . e é went , and a House Lev e took up some minutes afterwards all chance of getting through the work w a s gone , since up in the Dorm . , even though the VI might have their tollies 6 after out the lights were , he might not avail w as himself of the chance . There noth ing for it but to wake up early next of morning , an unsafe method work tending to a repetition Of the previous h im disaster . But we can follow no further and must turn to the contemplation of a more exalted being on some day of the Winter Term .

1 2 a 4 m . 2 . 1 . . 01 . p 76 p . 8 p . p 5 Par n o r R la Can les . e ts ( e tives) . d

THE TRIVIAL ROUND 123

’ ’ Much of Jones ma . s routine is the same as that described above But h is breakfast is a more leisurely affair alto so gether . He has been already long in l 1 dl of Hal , that he is har y conscious its privileges but he feels a little indignant so to see Smith mi . staying in long at Breakfast that had not been allowed in 2 h s i . l young days However , Side Ru es

. are getting slack nowadays , and even 3 Lamb -Singing brings no terrors to the average new man . With considerable dignity Jones ma . presently goes down ’ town , looking into Lawrence s to exercise - i his newly acquired priv lege , as a member of of the Sixth , buying books without a 4 O i note . n the way he has tw ce to remove his hands from h is pockets to dl cap a Master , though har y with the

1 A privileged st a te rea ch ed after sev en or more terms a or in t o th e House a nd , cc d g in m i n r m i l c arr y g e anc pa tio f o m ost S de R u es . 2 h m h l e . . t e usto t a t o nl sw e ls m a w al g , c y y k on th e side of th e Hillm orton R o a d O pposite

h ir wn H u . to t e o o se , etc etc 3 N ew Bo ys h a v e to sing a song a t an inform al Dorm itor y Concert ; penalties for failure w ere m rl or e but a re no lon er sev ere . f y , g , 1‘ ’ House-m aster s lea v e to h a v e a purch ase entere i h Bill d n t e . 124 RUGBY SCHOOL

as of old same deference . But there is work to be done even for a late Second , and some twenty -ﬁv e minutes before the beginning of that lesson he at last sets ’ mom about his hour s preparation . The in n as g is u eventful , and it is the day Of a Field Day 1 there will not be much 2 doing in the afternoon . Puntabout whiles away a quarter of an hour before C O w l , and after ards there is on y a Littleside 3 for the remnants left at

Rugby in the absence Of the Corps .

Even on ordinary Halves , Jones ma . need his not hurry back after games , for bath all awaits him when he wants it , the pleasanter for memories of the time when he had either to run back from Benn ’ s to secure an early Tosh , or wait for five or six a ll other men senior to him , and Um then find all the hot water gone . fortunately this Tuesday evening is marred by the necessity of finishing his 4 C overdue opy , which ought to have been as shown up at First Lesson , and j ust li he is sett ng down to it over Hall Fire , the Corps returns and makes Hall

1 2 An in rm a l i in r a ti e on p . 67 . fo k ck g p c c Pontines a lls ein in r ea iness a t cer a in , b b g d t h ou r 3 6 ‘ 109 s . 7 p . . p . .

T H E FL O R EAT

d m e E M e l a n d C . co os b . ob r p y y ,

Ev oe leeta r equies Adv eni t la or am b , Fessa vult indu cias Dur a gens libr or um Nunc com a r a tur s a r ina p c , Nun m sto sunt v ia ti a c p c , N os laeta s h ola miserit c , N05 1mta dom us ce perit ZE u ales sod ales ita te lam a te q , , c , c

lore a t ﬂorea t ﬂore a t Ru beia . F , , g

l r t fl rea t fl r a t R u beia Ch orus . o e a o o e F , , g , lorea t florea t florea t R u beia F , , g

C ampi nostri gr a mina T ri ta am uies ent j q c , Dein bim estri s pa tio Laata re vir es cent Sic se t andem refectur a men es tri r N ost rae tis t tu a , Et ri or omnis difﬁ uet g , Et v i or ortus a fﬁ uet g , Ut h o ro sonoro citem us clamemus c ,

lorea t ﬂorea t ﬂorea t R u beia . F , , g

Ch or us. 128 RUGBY SCHOOL

Illa viva t o erum , p Stren a n u a v a tri x , Et virtut um omnium Unica cr ea tr ix Illa re gno cives bonos Et onor um det atronos b p , Det la ros senatores c , L aurea tos bellatores

Et onis oronis laud a ta eata d c , b , l rea t ﬂor a t ﬂ r R i o e o ea t u be a . F , , g C h orus .

At si fa turu omnes nos T a nta l n vu t co ari, H aecce s altem tempora Fa s sit otia ri

N ondum cancellarn Sumus a ut epis co pi ; Sic r a tres a u ea mus f g d , I n lo o desi iam us c p , Et h oro sonoro citemus clamemus c , ” l r ﬂ ﬂ R u i o ea t orea t orea t be a . F , , g

C h orus .

THE END

i t i I P Lt B P r n ed by S r saac itma n 6 S ons, d , ath . (2 1 5I )

O XFO R D AN D C A MB R I D G E

Delinea ted by H AN SL I P FLETCHER With a n I ntroductory Cha pter by th e la te WI IS C L AR K J. LL , Sometime R e istr a r o th e Univer sit o C a mbrid e g y f y f g .

And es ri e v a rious w riters in lu in d c b d by , c d g N P K W H H U O H . S ES . . TT . TO AR HUR WAUGH F D H OW T . . ERIC P ARK ER ARTHUR GRAY W D D M. ED D E WAR B ELL G . AR S ES N D C E T A L ACE D MO OK . . Y E EE E CHA CE S GAS L . . . B N LLOR A HE S AN I E F M R USH RE T L T R L Y . . MO P P EACE O H MURRA J. . J N Y

e m lot l i t t i h 6 I n d y 4 t o , c h g i t , g l op , w t ov er 0

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We a w it usti e t a t some Of r can s y h j c h M . ’ Fletcher s pla tes a r e th e ﬁnest exa mples Of their w v n Not onl is ev er r win kind tha t e ha e see . y y d a g a ura te but a e to t a t a ura t ere is an cc , dd d h cc cy h in es ri a le s m a th eti a rm a s if th e a rtist d c b b y p c ch , h a d been a ble to infuse into hi s picture h is own f lin Of n rn d r ev eren TO a ll ee gs te de ess an ce . Univ er sity men this delightful v olume is Of th e re e t int re t N O one s oul miss seein it if g a t s e s . h d g ” onl fo r th e memorie i a lls u —Assista nt y s t c p . ’ Ma u ster s j o rna l. They (th e dra wings) ma ke a strong a ppea l to a ll w h o ha v e been priv ileged to ca ll Oxfor d or C a m r i e t eir a lma ma ter r ev iv in memories b dg h , g t t nev er f e T ese a r e w oll eli tful ha a d . h h y d gh re r esenta tions Of ua s a nd olle e interiors h a lls p q d c g ,

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