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bl**dy swots!

Actually, I had something called the Kenyon Rosebowl Music Prize - I wonder if that still exists.......

I got that prize too! So it existed up to 1994.

Did you get a rose bowl?

I got it in 1992. No, you just got a book voucher.

Not sure that one exists anymore, I got the 'Traer Harris' Music prize a couple of times... Maybe its the same thing, or not?

I have three prizes awarded to my grandfather in 1886 - one concerns the recent exploration of the Nile.

All three volumes are leather bound and embossed in gold with the Housey Crest. I know he was a buttoned Grecian but the prizes were awarded to him in the Upper Fourth in the year he had his buttons ....!

See unexplained topic at:

viewtopic.php?t=707&highlight=grandfather

In my time, all the book prizes had the crest embossed in gold - one time I got two books, the smaller presumably to make up the money allowance for it. My standard text on differential equations with a gold crest seemed a bit pretentious when I took it to tutorials - but I didn't have enough money to buy a second copy!

Well lucky old everyone!
I never won a thing at school (except sporting colours). I am beginning to feel inadequate.

kerrensimmonds wrote:Well lucky old everyone!
I never won a thing at school (except sporting colours). I am beginning to feel inadequate.

Don't worry - I never won anything until I was 18. I think I only picked up a couple of prizes because nobody else wanted them!

There were, of course, people who won things every year.....

Have to confess I usually got 2 or 3 every year. I didn't mean to

Rose Bowl prize ... nothing fancy just money for books. Exciting times.

kerrensimmonds wrote:I never won a thing at school (except sporting colours). I am beginning to feel inadequate.

You really surprise me, Kerren. I would have thought you were far more of an achiever in CH terms than I ever was. My prizes were all for Maths in the VI form and for two of them there wasn't that much competition.

No, except for when I went to get my Hockey colours, I never got to walk across that stage, to the thunderous (let alone lukewarm!) applause of the audience. I'm scarred for life.................
The only gold crested books I have are my Bible and the companion Book of Common Prayer (apart from one or two bits and bobs which I have bought on eBay, but they don't count!)
Ho Ho!

Don't fret, Kerren - I won the junior recitation prize my first year, then absolutely nothing else until my UVI - when I received the Art Prize ( I think because I was the only UVI without a prize...) - my mother almost choked when I told her, given that I have trouble drawing a recognisable straight line, let alone anything else !

I never won the French prize because, in an unnameable ( for charity's sake ) teacher's words " you've been learning french for much longer than the others, so you have an advantage" ...! They refused to give Sebastien the French prize ( despite getting an A at A-level in the UV) for the same reason.

So we can be academic pariahs together...

Euterpe13 wrote:I never won the French prize because, in an unnameable ( for charity's sake ) teacher's words " you've been learning french for much longer than the others, so you have an advantage" ...!

How did they work out who won the English prize?

indeed...