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- Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:04 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Ian Page
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4600
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...
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Your nickname
- Replies: 136
- Views: 74681
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...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Ernest Christopher "Kit" Aitken
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27218
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...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Chaplains
- Replies: 97
- Views: 65403
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...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:12 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 58145
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...
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 7:33 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: GRACE
- Replies: 71
- Views: 39440
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...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:19 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14117
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...
- Fri May 08, 2020 8:42 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: R Rae
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11424
Re: R Rae
Excuse my ignorance but what are
According to the Oxford online dictionary (https://www.lexico.com/), polymathic is fine and I was previously unaware of this.
andThe bits in the classroom he called a 'work break'
CWN's 'fish' periods
According to the Oxford online dictionary (https://www.lexico.com/), polymathic is fine and I was previously unaware of this.
- Fri May 08, 2020 6:56 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: R Rae
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11424
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...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:55 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Now it reaches Eton
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37384
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
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:15 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Now it reaches Eton
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37384
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
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: W.P.C. Davies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5014
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...
- Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:18 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blue Rugby 'Blues'
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11603
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.
- 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: 11940
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?
- 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: 11940
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.
It’s an Americanism, someone who’s worthless, a hobo, tramp or vagrant.