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by Richard
Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:45 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
Replies: 93
Views: 53079

Re: Michael Cherniavsky

Almost certainly Armstrong, who also strongly advised that girls have some experience in science - far ahead of his time there, as elsewhere.
by Richard
Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:40 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
Replies: 93
Views: 53079

Re: Michael Cherniavsky

I doubt if much had changed since the school moved to Horsham up to 1960. I disagree most profoundly with this opinion. In brief, for matters academic the curriculum at CH was greatly broadened to include science at the start of the 20th century. Not only were these subjects (physics and chemistry ...
by Richard
Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:10 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
Replies: 93
Views: 53079

Re: Michael Cherniavsky

Why antediluvian? If it were so, why exactly did Michael regret leaving CH?
by Richard
Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Innovations in Housey dress
Replies: 16
Views: 6672

Re: Innovations in Housey dress

Two other comments on the videos.

The grecians’ coats seem unchanged since WW2 (except for the lack of velvet on the cuffs during and shortly after the war)
Some of the marching, mainly of girls, is very poor.
by Richard
Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Debates
Replies: 25
Views: 7687

Re: School Debates

I recollect that debate. I think the motion was carried. If so it perhaps reflects the relatively poor food at CH and the (conventional) morality of those days, for one argument certainly made was that Ava Gardner at that time was Mrs Frank Sinatra.
by Richard
Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:51 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Debates
Replies: 25
Views: 7687

Re: School Debates

Alan Ryan (La A) was a professor at Princeton University (USA) for some years before he returned to the UK to be a professor and the head of New College, Oxford. After reaching the obligatory UK/Oxford retirement age he returned to teach and research at Princeton, where he is now, for in the USA the...
by Richard
Sun Sep 20, 2015 1:12 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Debates
Replies: 25
Views: 7687

Re: School Debates

Here are some debates of a political nature in which Michael Stewart participated in the early 1920s. He was later to become twice Foreign Secretary in Labour Governments under Harold Wilson. Stewart was an excellent debater and left wing politician, even at school, easily winning a CH mock election...
by Richard
Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:45 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: William Glock
Replies: 3
Views: 1617

Re: William Glock

Sir William F Glock (Ba B 1919-28) never had much to do with CH for most of his post-school life. I once phoned him and asked if I could visit him at his home in Wallingford, Berks, to pose some questions on a CH related topic concerned with his schooldays that I was researching at the time. He knew...
by Richard
Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:49 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Claude Minot Newman
Replies: 12
Views: 4049

Re: Claude Minot Newman

Although I cannot add any information about the OB experiences of being interred by the Japanese in the Far East in the Second World War, I can mention some other things about the Changi Prison Camp, Singapore. 1. If you wish to know more of the shameful treatment of prisoners of war by the Japanese...
by Richard
Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:11 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
Replies: 142
Views: 89524

Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster

CFK was certainly eccentric and also never liked to spend a penny more than was necessary. That's presumably why his everyday dress was ex-Army gear (but of WW2 vintage and not WW1 as the thread's title suggests). Another indication of his strong disinclination to 'waste' money was his objection to ...
by Richard
Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:51 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
Replies: 43
Views: 11764

Re: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)

Photos of Corks I have just been looking at the thread, “Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster”. On 25 Jan 15 eucsgmrc posted a message including the web address https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/55 ... 099253537/ It shows shots of Cecil Francis Kirby’s strange laboratory....
by Richard
Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
Replies: 43
Views: 11764

Re: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)

Since very many Blues know nothing about this unusual man ‘Corks’, something further about him may be of use. The Rev WCM Cochrane (Cecil) was a Cambridge man, the Director of Music at CH in the 40s and 50s, highly regarded as a musician and popular with boys. His sermons were usually much more humo...
by Richard
Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Wearing of C H uniform
Replies: 21
Views: 9107

Re: Wearing of C H uniform

For the first year of the Seaman regime we certainly wore housey clothes on the Housey Special (the CH train to and from London). I remember it being emphasised that for the Oxbridge interviews in those days it was a definite advantage to wear housey clothes and it was a reason why one would make a ...
by Richard
Wed May 28, 2014 4:06 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Housey parodies of pop songs, etc
Replies: 15
Views: 5050

Re: Housey parodies of pop songs, etc

Fascinating (bras and Hertford) and surely nowhere else can such things be learned. Here are a couple items from ‘The Outlook’ and inspired by Ogden Nash’s poems. I cannot remember their authors. The second was composed at a time just after the introduction of chlorophyll-containing toothpastes, acc...
by Richard
Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:15 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH Horsham
Replies: 34
Views: 10233

Re: Films at CH Horsham

The Franco-British Society's filmshows attracted some people who never studied French and knew nothing of the language. They attended because they liked films. This was probably a good thing to disseminate the values of French culture (although the two films I mention now were not very good cultural...