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As far as I remember all Button Grecians took a turn, starting on your 17th birthday when you got your buttons. I think one got reminded the day before when your next turn came round, though I can't now remember by whom. I suppose once you were on the list you all followed in sequence, but whoever m...

I was there at the time, and don't remember anyone ever getting the sovereign's gender wrong when reading the Grace. I first had to read it myself in November 1951 when I got my buttons, so started with saying "King" then and had to change to "Queen" in the following February. I ...

I never knew where the female teaching staff ate, but when I arrived in Col.B in 1944 we had no junior housemaster and the room that would have been his study, next to the dayroom, was used as the Ladies' Common Room, where they could go and meet together.