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by Fitzsadou
Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:04 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Ian Page
Replies: 3
Views: 3855

Re: Ian Page

Sorry to disappoint you all, but I think that possibly Ian Page was not a master at CH. There was a John H Page there in the fifies, Perhaps another Page (Ian) joined the staff later. Anyhow some reminiscences of JH Page follow, in case they are of interest. I certainly remember JH Page although I h...
by Fitzsadou
Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:35 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Your nickname
Replies: 136
Views: 58405

Re: Your nickname

In my day (40s & 50s) the most imaginative and prolific bestower of boys’ nicknames was the eccentric master Cecil Francis Kirby (Uncle or Bill). Although he is hardly mentioned in recent forum entries he has a well deserved thread devoted to him and was often mentioned elsewhere too. A selectio...
by Fitzsadou
Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:20 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Ernest Christopher "Kit" Aitken
Replies: 25
Views: 22976

Re: Ernest Christopher "Kit" Aitken

Here’s some more about Kit Aitken. In the mid 50s he coached the Colts rugby team and for a while his co-coach was (surprisingly) Gad Malins. I believe that Kit had played for some prestigious rugby team before the war. He normally only taught junior forms and I understand his subjects were mainly E...
by Fitzsadou
Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:54 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Chaplains
Replies: 97
Views: 60208

Re: School Chaplains

The Chaplain’s teaching of divinity (Christian religious studies) was almost as important a duty as the conducting of Chapel Services. Before the appointment of the first Assistant Chaplain (Rev L. Whitfield, or ‘Windy’ Whitfield) there were non-clerical teachers of divinity. In about 1950 they incl...
by Fitzsadou
Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:12 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?
Replies: 118
Views: 52848

Re: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?

Another of Tush’s (Sgt Usher’s) duties was to visit every classroom in second period with two lists, one on which the teacher would write the names of those absent and the other (it may have been on yellow paper) which was for the names of those to report for a punishment drill, held on Lamb asphalt...
by Fitzsadou
Sat Jul 18, 2020 7:33 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 34264

Re: GRACE

Mr Ed has told us that In my time, 1978-85, the 'academic' Button Grecians did read Grace, In my days, some 30 years before Mr Ed’s time at CH, button grecians were so designated (and clothed) only for academic reasons. In the remote past (when university scholarships did not exist, except at Oxbrid...
by Fitzsadou
Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:19 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
Replies: 44
Views: 13278

Re: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)

An original, and most prestigious, Oxford degree used to be Lit Hum or Mods* and Greats (Ancient Greek and Latin Literature followed by Ancient Greek and Latin History and [I think mainly Greek, but also some more modern] Philosophy). It has been a four year BA course, even in the days when almost a...
by Fitzsadou
Fri May 08, 2020 8:42 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: R Rae
Replies: 23
Views: 10647

Re: R Rae

Excuse my ignorance but what are
The bits in the classroom he called a 'work break'
and
CWN's 'fish' periods

According to the Oxford online dictionary (https://www.lexico.com/), polymathic is fine and I was previously unaware of this.
by Fitzsadou
Fri May 08, 2020 6:56 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: R Rae
Replies: 23
Views: 10647

R Rae

Perhaps Bob Rae deserves his own thread in the Forum. Here’s a start. He was a Cambridge graduate in maths, who had attended Solihull Grammar School. He came CH as a junior housemaster and finally became senior housemaster of Col B, after the departure of AH Buck, but with a term of so of CF Kirby a...
by Fitzsadou
Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:55 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Now it reaches Eton
Replies: 51
Views: 28482

Re: Now it reaches Eton

Thanks. To quote the late Duke of Windsor, while he was an undergraduate at Oxford, “The knowledge I lack would fill volumes.” TB
by Fitzsadou
Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:15 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Now it reaches Eton
Replies: 51
Views: 28482

Re: Now it reaches Eton

I’m thick, so I don’t understand Sejintenej’s aphorism at the end of his contribution. Please explain? Thanks. TB
by Fitzsadou
Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:38 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: W.P.C. Davies
Replies: 10
Views: 4269

Re: W.P.C. Davies

Beaky Davies was certainly an excellent teacher and a very pleasant man, who left CH to become the headmaster of various prep schools in turn. One item about him while at CH was an occurrence during a Harlequins match, in about 1954, when somehow he lost his shorts. The Daily Mirror published a pict...
by Fitzsadou
Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:18 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Old Blue Rugby 'Blues'
Replies: 28
Views: 9874

Re: Old Blue Rugby 'Blues'

In spite of the recent event at Twickenham, why limit this thread to Rugby? So then we could have mention of Cricket (and DRW Silk). Why stop there? There are Rowing, etc (and even Tiddly Winks) to consider.
by Fitzsadou
Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:31 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
Replies: 17
Views: 10720

Re: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?

I’m clearly missing something, but quite apart from me there are surely others who don’t know Tucker’s Law. Please enlighten us?
by Fitzsadou
Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:25 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
Replies: 17
Views: 10720

Re: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?

Of course I know what a ‘bum’ is, though I’m not sure if I learned it CH or not. What sort of strange question is that?

It’s an Americanism, someone who’s worthless, a hobo, tramp or vagrant.