Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-28

master, Dr. Percival, have been erandly democratic to the core. Among the 'thir teen trustees are three earls, one marouis. three lords, two right honorables, two members of parliament, one archdeacon and one canon; while the governing board of twelve comprises equally as many from among the great and titled of England. But Rugby students are from English mid dle classes, the backbone of the realm. personally know many whose parents, while not people of poverty, are very or an earl may send stripping down here to Rugby for the very discipline af- forded; but these finelings cannot form a "set;" are in nowise toadied to; have nev- CT yet cowed their interiors in wealth and station; and in every instance where they have not immediately adjusted themselves to the 'fair-play equal rights atmosphere of the school, they have had the overtime skin kicked from their lordly little shins and the superine hauteur cuffed out of their disdainful little faces in very short order; with genial and dreamfuI inatten- tion on the part of the masters, inexpres- sibly dear and delicious to every Rugby boy of the fright sort"
 In what we would term the s'faculty" of Rugby school there are twenty-seven resi- dent masters, or "professors" as we would call them, exclusive of the head master, the Rev. J. Percival, IL. D. Besides these there are seven resident tutors. Ev- cry school has it's ogres; beings dreaded, hated, preyed upon, endlessly the but of all devilish ingenuity in -Goy ish- malevo- lence. These are known at Rugby as "marshals;" and there are two of them. 'Mr. Blake (our companion) is all right that is, for marshal,' comedies my Rug by-boy friend in an explanatory whisper: but old Patey' the tother one's a reglar old grump, he is. He hates to have bows live, he does" These marshals are a sort of bailiffs or high constables who keep very sharp eyes on the goings and comings of these hundreds of lads. They secretly report misconduct, and are the dread bear CTS of the awful summons ''to the doctors chambers"
 AS was noticed in my preceding article on Rugby, Dr. Arnold, as long ago as 1928, removed all the irresponsible board ing-house vampires who fattened upon Rugby scholars and put in their places masters of the school. This not only ere ated direct responsibility, but insured good treatment to the boys The more popular a master made his house, the high CT he stood socially in Rugby, with the students, with the governing board; and besides it increased his profits through an increase of boarders. The system has been maintained, and from time to time commodious halls have been built. There are now seven of these exclusive of the ''School House" proper; and the boys liy- ing at each house are distinguished by their "colors;" and each house takes the name of the master in charge; while the boys at each boarding hall receive the house-name as general appellative. To illustrate: Whitelaw's, purple and white: Donkin's, red and black; Collins, light blue and white; Morice's, green and white: Mir. Bowden Smiths, blue and black, on hat; MT. Scott's, yellow and black, on hat: MT. Michell's contingent being fellows" and the boys are individually pointed out in Rugby streets as ''Donkin's house man." "Bowden Smiths houseman," a "Scott's houseman," etc.
 l give the everyday routine at Rugby just as my young 'Lower Middle" friend rattled it off to me: "Well, the 6:1j morning bell wakes us, but We don't want to get up. Then another bell rings at ten minutes of seven for five minutes. We've got to get in our places in chapel in that time to be called over,' and if we're too lazy to make it, it means a 'licking' that's all. After service we march in order to our different form rooms and say lessons till S:15. Then we have fifteen minutes to buy any little luxuries, like penny-loaves the house breads pretty dry.-and then comes breakfast. From 9:15 to 1:l5, les sons; and dinners at 1:30. We get g rest spell from dinner until three. and then lessons go on again until six, except Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays Them: half holidays. Every boy has got to join the games then unless he's got good ex- cuse. Sometimes we get off by sham ming sore foot, and many other ways well known to us boys. But whatever we're doing at six o'clock, games, saunter- ing and study, everything's dropped and we give a grand rush for tea After tea in winter, and after 1:15 in summer. come. locking up Nobody likes that. Then we have to pitch in on preparation that's getting our lessons for the next fore noon-until nine o'clock, when they giv, us a very light supper that don't mak, anybody dream. Then it's go to bed, and no fooling, or it means another Ticking, sure as fees and marshals, that's all,''
 Rugby school-games are famous wher ever the heart of boyhood throbs quicker | and stronger in the enjoyment of all man ful sport. They comprise raquets, cricket steeple- chasing, hare-and- hounds or paper chasing and football, for which Rugby gives the rules the world over.
 The supervision of all Rugby games il
 wholly in the hands of the boys them selves. This also includes the manage ment of the great ''School Close" the un equaled playground of Rugby. The de | tails of the management are delegated to committee of five boys locally called th
 "Big School Levee." This board consist of the head of the school, the head of th school house, the captains of football ant cricket, and one other chosen by thes four. This games board levies taxes to b paid by all for the support of schoo amusements, subject to approval by tn head master It is also, from the boys standpoint, the grand council or senate O the school, to be called together at an, time to consider any matter pertaining tC
 the scholars interests at the instigstion o
 all, or for ordering any action where it i
 desirable the whole school shall share such as rebellion against too dry bread O ancient prunes, boycotts upon tuck-shop | for unsavory or under-weight penn, ! loaves; or for thrashing the insolen
 '1outs" (non-schoolmen) of the village The head fellow of the house arranges th' games, and, as my young friend apprise me, by universal consent "does the lick ing" If, when called on, a boy does no play, but "funks" and goes botanizing swimming or fishing, note is sent to hin containing the dread words: ''See me a
 my study at 2:15." The boy goes and i given ''two hundred lines" to write: ter
 rible punishment to any lad. But if h
 has committed the unpardonable crime O
 'minching" from cricket, in the languag
 of my young friend, ''you are ordered t
 kneel on a stool bend over chair, whil
 a Sixth Form fellow fetches out a sixpen
 ny cane yard and half long, and give
 you six rum cuts: so of course you aint il
 love with the 'Sixth-FormeIs'!"
 Nearly all Rugby games have their owl
 season. Hare and hounds and brook
 jumping ''comes in" with the Easter term
 Towards the half-term there is Big
 side" run at hare and hounds. Then th
 house steeple-chases begin The mex
 term brings cricket; and the next ths
 toughest and pluckiest of all Englis
 games, football, never elsewhere played S
 roughly and pluckily as at Rugby; whil
 raquets are at all times in season.
 In the house steeple-chases the boys c
 the different houses pitch tents on tn
 banks of the Avon, where n brook flow
 into that stream This little stream is T,
 markably winding, aud as the ''course"
 upwards of @ mile over the general dire
 tion of the stream, the racers are con
 pelled to cross the brook from twelve
 fifteen times. Some grand sprinting an
 splashing are done here, and the boys, [
 finish, resemble those misguided creature who emerge half blinded from the muC : baths at Santa Barbara.
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