Girl Button Grecians

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:42 am

im all grumpy now -

please JR be nice for 1 days?

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:24 pm

Jude wrote:im all grumpy now -

please JR be nice for 1 days?

OK I promise !!!!!!

Just had a thought - I wish I was one of the 7 dwarves, (very hard at 6ft-2"). If I was, I'd be happy ! Then, if I wanted, I could feel GRUMPY from time to time !

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:54 am

J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:im all grumpy now -

please JR be nice for 1 days?
OK I promise !!!!!!

Just had a thought - I wish I was one of the 7 dwarves, (very hard at 6ft-2"). If I was, I'd be happy ! Then, if I wanted, I could feel GRUMPY from time to time !

But JR that would mean you had to do some work.........

(ducks down quickly and runs away)

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:40 pm

Jude wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:im all grumpy now -

please JR be nice for 1 days?
OK I promise !!!!!!

Just had a thought - I wish I was one of the 7 dwarves, (very hard at 6ft-2"). If I was, I'd be happy ! Then, if I wanted, I could feel GRUMPY from time to time !
But JR that would mean you had to do some work.........

(ducks down quickly and runs away)

Feeling Grumpy ????

That's one sort of work I DON'T object to !

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:06 pm

My son's school did a Millennium pantomime (at the Millennium) and he played a dwarf, Tiny, he was 6'1 at the time, as he is now.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:07 pm

J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:
J.R. wrote: OK I promise !!!!!!

Just had a thought - I wish I was one of the 7 dwarves, (very hard at 6ft-2"). If I was, I'd be happy ! Then, if I wanted, I could feel GRUMPY from time to time !
But JR that would mean you had to do some work.........

(ducks down quickly and runs away)
Feeling Grumpy ????

That's one sort of work I DON'T object to !

JR - isn't it still illegal to grope a dwarf?

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:30 am

Jude wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote: But JR that would mean you had to do some work.........

(ducks down quickly and runs away)
Feeling Grumpy ????

That's one sort of work I DON'T object to !
JR - isn't it still illegal to grope a dwarf?

I think you're right !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last time I was in court for it, the judge asked..............................

"How low can you stoop ????????????????????"

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:34 am

J.R. wrote: Last time I was in court for it, the judge asked..............................

"How low can you stoop ????????????????????"

John, was he standing behind you when he said that?

Judges, eh?

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:26 pm

hmmm

Ok so at what age can a girl start to collect Buttons?
If you are really hard working can you get a button as a 3rd yr?(1st yr - so confusing ch terms!)

Are theses buttons still silver buttons ?
Is there an assembly where people are called out for buttons?
what makes a Button Grecian SO special?

Real questions for the actual topic in hand.....

keep the dwarf things to the dwarf thread....

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:29 pm

Jude wrote:Real questions for the actual topic in hand.....

keep the dwarf things to the dwarf thread....

Oooh, you're so picky, Jude!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:36 pm

Jude wrote:hmmm

Ok so at what age can a girl start to collect Buttons?
If you are really hard working can you get a button as a 3rd yr?(1st yr - so confusing ch terms!)

Are theses buttons still silver buttons ?
Is there an assembly where people are called out for buttons?
what makes a Button Grecian SO special?

Real questions for the actual topic in hand.....

keep the dwarf things to the dwarf thread....

Don't know exactly how things are now, but in my time button coats were awarded to Grecians who were either a) chosen to become school monitors (as opposed to house monitors, although house captains of senior houses were invariably school monitors), or b) academically successful, and possibly destined for Oxbridge.

You could, of course, be awarded your buttons for both reasons. There was no ceremony. When I got mine, the head of Modern Languages gave me a chit, to be countersigned by the headmaster.

I then toddled off to the wardrobe to get the new coat.

darthmaul · Post by **darthmaul** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:44 pm

RR has it right. Not all Oxbridge candidates however, got their buttons. And not all HC's made to School Monitor. And what are House Monitors?

Generally all academics are awarded publicly in a HM's assembly. The candidate cannot receive their coat before then.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:59 pm

darthmaul wrote:RR has it right. Not all Oxbridge candidates however, got their buttons. And not all HC's made to School Monitor. And what are House Monitors?

Generally all academics are awarded publicly in a HM's assembly. The candidate cannot receive their coat before then.

Each senior house had, I think, 6 or so house monitors (including the house captain). Responsibilities included organising trades, supervising prep, getting people to bed on time, making sure everyone got to breakfast, making sure beds were made, giving drills to naughty people, etc.

House monitors may also have been school monitors, but not always (I wasn't a school monitor, for example, although during my time as a house monitor I was awarded academic buttons).

No Grecians' Houses in those days, so anyone chosen to be house captain would have been a Grecian, and would also have been made a school monitor (this happened to Rory, who posts on here).

I think academic buttons were awarded at the discretion of the relevant head of department. This effectively meant that anyone who was considered to have a reasonably good chance of gaining an Oxbridge place got their buttons.

Just to buck the system, I didn't get into Oxford, either.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:19 pm

so to cut it short
you only get "Buttons" (I guess they are still silver, or silver plated) for being GOOD the entire life of being at CH, and only as a Grecian can you be awarded them, you also have to change your coat... ?????? Why - can't you sew the new buttons on or is the coat different as well?

To be honest I would have thought a few more reasons for buttons were there - we got P badges for posture.....
most private schools have colours or badges for being in a sports team, or captaining one, others for music and so forth, thus not setting a differance between the academically gifted and the less so - I would have had a problem if both of mine had gone to CH and stayed - as Chris was a year ahaead and very bright, and Sarah has dyslexia so would have been seen as dumb (she has a very high IQ as do most dyslexics) it seems a slightly one sided affair. I would like more information... please.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:23 pm

Jude, I think we have to compare Buttons with a Green Apron. Except we could not get them for mere academic excellence - I would have had one a lot earlier!!!

Thought - in how many forums (fora) would that sentence make sense? It should do to any Hertford OG of my generation and later, as GA came in in my time.