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Memories and Impressions 1831-1900

1900

The next year was the year of the great frost of the great eclipse (which I saw through smoked glass) and of the rebellion in Canada succeeded by the Chartist riots which lasted through a great part of 1839. [...] The Captain of the School (always a Colleger) and the Captain of the Oppidans are now and then singled out for honourable notice on the occasion of some Royal ceremonial and sometimes exercise a certain personal influence but they make no prtence of ruling the School and have no sort of right to control the games. [...] On the river the Captain of the Boats is all-powerful in the playing fields the Captain of the Eleven in the various football fields the Captains of the Clubs to which they respectively belong. [...] One was the absurd law of bounds which nominally prohibited boys from going beyond the immediate precincts of the College and rendered them to punisment if caught outside by a master an exception being made in favour of the river itself and of the North Terrace at Windsor but not of the street which led to both of them. [...] At last the doctors strongly recommended the experiment of a long sea voyage and I am glad to believe that its success in my case encouraged others to seek restoration of health by the same means Otherwise my experience of life at sea gained in this voyage was the only compensation for the sacrifice of my career from the spring of 1848 to the autumn of 1850.
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Pages
437
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146364
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Cover
i-i George Brodrick view
Preface
ii-xiii George Brodrick view
Chapter I. Early Life at Home and at School 1831-1843
1-21 George Brodrick view
Chapter II. Eton School-Days and Holidays 1843-1848
22-58 George Brodrick view
Chapter III. Voyage to India and Year of Rest 1848-1850
59-73 George Brodrick view
Chapter IV. Undergraduate Life at Oxford 1850-1854
74-102 George Brodrick view
Chapter V. Later Career at Oxford 1854-1856
103-115 George Brodrick view
Chapter VI. Reading for the Bar—the Western Circuit 1856-1862
116-128 George Brodrick view
Chapter VII. Journalism 1860-1873
129-146 George Brodrick view
Chapter VIII. Election Contests Woodstock 1868 and 1874 Monmouthshire 1880
147-161 George Brodrick view
Chapter IX. Service on Commissions
162-174 George Brodrick view
Chapter X. Family Events 1854-1893 Life and Work in London 1873-1880 Impressions of London Society
175-207 George Brodrick view
Chapter XI. Sexcentenary of Merton College 1874 Impressions of Cambridge
208-217 George Brodrick view
Chapter XII. Impressions of some Political and Literary Characters
218-271 George Brodrick view
Chapter XIII. Foreign Tours and Voyages
272-297 George Brodrick view
Chapter XIV. Travel in England and Scotland
298-317 George Brodrick view
Chapter XV. Ireland
318-338 George Brodrick view
Chapter XVI. Oxford at the End of the Nineteenth Century
339-376 George Brodrick view
Chapter XVII. Literary and Official Work 1881-1899
377-395 George Brodrick view
Chapter XVIII. Appearance Before the Special Commission 1889
396-410 George Brodrick view
Chapter XIX. Retrospect and Prospect
411-414 George Brodrick view
Backmatter
i-8 George Brodrick view

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