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- Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:45 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 65590
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.
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:40 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 65590
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 ...
- Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:10 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 65590
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
Why antediluvian? If it were so, why exactly did Michael regret leaving CH?
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Innovations in Housey dress
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7044
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.
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.
- Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Debates
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7894
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.
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:51 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Debates
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7894
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...
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Debates
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7894
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...
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:45 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: William Glock
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1638
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...
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:49 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Claude Minot Newman
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4181
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...
- 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: 143
- Views: 104422
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 ...
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11967
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....
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:50 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Rev W Cochrane. (Corks!)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11967
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...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Wearing of C H uniform
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9662
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 ...
- Wed May 28, 2014 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey parodies of pop songs, etc
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5087
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...
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Films at CH Horsham
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10343
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...