Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I remember Karim. He was a vain and arrogant man, but ultimately a weak one - he sided with the cooler kids against the weaker ones and was swift to belittle those others didn’t like. In such regards he wasn’t unique - but he made significant capital of his refugee status. In retrospect and now havi...

I for one am not remotely surprised.

I think Karim was an ‘unofficial’ house tutor of LHB under Sillett.

Ah, don’t get me wrong - I think the merger was a great idea. What I think was poorly handled was the transition; three headmasters, one disinterested, one ancient and stentorian, and one weak and vaccilating. There was also a tranche of sneering or arkward staff who couldn’t handle the girls being ...

Excuse my ignorance Avon, but what's an SMC? Also, you say insufficient thought was given to the merger leading to some of what we are seeing here, but surely Webb and Burr at least, committed their crimes some time before the merger took place. Ah, sorry - typo. I meant SMT - which was senior mana...

I tried to get the Police interested in a certain ex-Master for his over-zealous use of corporal punishment/assault when as a junior house master, yet the b*stard has got away with it as corporal punishment wasn't illegal until 1998. How the hell he was rewarded in a New Years Honours for "his...

As I remember, the two Joneses in Prep A were always known as Jonah Senior and Jonah Junior (although neither eaten by whales). As to Lady Chatterley, Michael, I've always believed that the jury in that trial correctly saw that this was a book about class rather than sex. Clifford Chatterley is the...

Yes, I'm of your vintage Keith. Crug and Flab. Although when I went up into the senior school I got haughtily told off for calling it Crug. It was apparently Bread in the Upper. How typical of the English boarding school. Thus do those above us seek to put us down with sneering pedantic corrections...

Good. That’s raised the bar.

Unfortunately these league tables never seem to measure how many decent, responsible, socially concerned people may emerge from particular schools. But I imagine that sort of measurement would horrify today's Tory party and particularly the likes of Michael "Gradgrind" Gove. How do you pr...

‘Dennis Silk’ gets everywhere. Was there more than one or something?

Has the student body been canvassed as to whether it wants to be spammed with a highly selective set of biopics on Canadican OB?

J.R. wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:13 pm I can only assume the two sentences passed were in my view lenient, because of their age. Or maybe they were Masons !!!

Two down, literally) and two to go.

I thought three to go? Or is the power of the Square even greater???

In the RN section I didn’t get a gun and could smoke too, when Chief Bradley wasn’t looking. After proficiency I spent my CCF time in the RE's, pretending to build an assault course in the Bird sanctuary. Also a haven for smokers. I think the RE did the same too in my time - a week of building a co...

I would have thought that the success in moving children up the social strata (if that is the correct way to describe our society), would be more important than exam success etc. I think you’ve hit on an unwritten objective of every public school in the country. League tables just seem to fill out ...