Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

These inspections performed several functions. Ensuring cleanliness was of course the most obvious and important, but there were others. The matron had an opportunity to recognise some forms of illness, such as rashes, etc., and could act accordingly. It was also a social occasion in my house. The m...

Some more books by CH masters: - Intermediate Mathematics, by CJA Trimble, TS Usherwood - Intermediate Mathematics (Analysis), by TS USHERWOOD & CJA TRIMBLE (1925) - Practical Mathematics for Technical Students, by CJA USHERWOOD & TS TRIMBLE (1914). - A First Book of Practical Mathematics, b...

Although this is late, I hope that it will be of some use. Jonathan Osborne will almost certainly speak on the heuristic method and CH. But he may not mention how the heuristic method came about, with its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Prof HE Armstrong had Chas E Browne as an acoly...

As a newcomer to the Forum I started reading the approximately 1500 postings. Starting with the most important threads, eg “School for scandal or scandal school”, I read with much surprise and interest about an alleged skinny dipping incident by Hertford staff, first posted on Tue 13 Sep 2005 at 1:2...

I went to the CHOBA website, found the link to Martin's questionnaire and it did not work there either. Can someone please fix it? Thanks.

When in a junior dorm, with 24 others on the top floor of the house, one of the regular delights of weekend bedtime, after lights out, was about 30 min of reading aloud by a dormitory monitor. The choice of literature was usually his, but the housemasters also took an interest in the choice, possibl...