CHAPTER XII 



Long Absence from School The Assistant Masters Dislike of 

 them Dr Hayman elected Headmaster Automatic Rise to 

 Second in the School Football Fancies Effect of Absence- 

 Try for a Christ Church Studentship Matriculate at Balliol 

 Farewell to Doctor Temple My last Big Side Match Life 

 under Dr Hayman Go As You Please yEschylus in a 

 Dress Coat Last Vlth Dinner Grand Military at Rugby 

 Patey outwitted Our Dogs and our Convenience Long- 

 distance Running The Harborough Magna Run Also 

 the Crick 



I AM sorely tempted to multiply stories of Rugby, but 

 they would occupy too much space, and it so happens 

 that I absented myself from the school during at 

 least three-quarters of 1869, always, however, providing 

 myself with certificates from Doctor Ryott. Jex-Blake had 

 gone away and become headmaster of Cheltenham, and 

 the Rev. C. Elsee reigned in his stead over our house. 

 He was a worthy man, and, as stated in the Prologue, 

 went by the name of "Bull," but he was a mathematical 

 master and, as such, possessed no interest for me. 



The younger masters of that period were deeply imbued 

 with the German school of thought and learning. It 

 would be unjust in the extreme to reflect on them now 

 by the light of the events of this war, but it can perhaps 

 be understood that, bred as I was in an atmosphere of 

 old Toryism, and with full reverence for the Established 

 Church, these dabblers in new fancies were as repulsive 

 to me as a Nonconformist minister would have been. 

 I hated the very name of Max Miiller. I find a letter of 

 mine written near the end of 1869 which quite explains 

 this feeling ; 



A Mr Hayman has been elected headmaster in Dr Temple's 

 place. I know nothing of him except that he is a good scholar, 

 High Church, and a Conservative, whereat the present junior 

 masters are much disgusted. 



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