THE BAKBAEIANS 1 



8 Bridge Street where he kept with Peter Clarke, who was junior 

 whip and secretary, in my spare time between giving a ten o'clock 

 lecture and the hour for starting in the brake. This by the way 

 sometimes led to an offer of luncheon consisting of bun loaf, butter, 

 and cold water, to which I contributed the sandwiches I had brought 

 in my pocket, and once he found me a whisky and soda ; though it 

 was, strictly speaking, " agin his conscience." Peter Clarke, who was 

 treated as a sort of fag, used to be sent out to buy the bun loaf After 

 our luncheon we were one day going round to the Pitt to join the 

 brake when "T" said, "You know all these people in the street 

 think we're mad. There's a fellow who used to sit next me in the 

 'Labs.' ['T' took the Natural Science Tripos] who said, 'I say, 

 what do you wear those things for that I saw you in the other day ? ' " 

 He meant of course the T.F.B. uniform, and did not know a velvet 

 hunting-cap when he saw one ! 



The gulf that is fixed between Barbarian and Philistine is further 

 widened by the fact that when the former do play cricket they 

 form a club of their own, and go out to play their humbler Barbarian 

 brethren in the outlying villages. 



But we have not yet exhausted the weight of the academic 

 prejudice arrayed against us. 



The Universities were originally, as were also Winchester and 

 Eton, and some other pre-reformation schools, ecclesiastical founda- 

 tions. There have been many ecclesiastics including Bishops who 

 have been keen sportsmen, nevertheless the official view is that the 

 "sporting parson" is inconsistent with sacerdotal propriety; for 

 "Jacob" lived even in so sporting a period as the Middle Ages, 

 and there existed then as now the allied prejudice against military 

 service. The Spectator has drawn attention to an Eton Statute 

 (Number XIX.), clean contrary to the Beagles, which runs as follows : 



No Scholar, Fellow, Chaplain or other Minister or SerA^ant of the 

 College shall keep or have hunting dogs, nets for hunting, ferrets, falcons 

 or hawks. 



The Spectator complains that notwithstanding this "the Eton 

 Beagles still remain in defiance of the Founder's prohibition of Sport." 

 All this is trotted out in the " humanitarian " interest, of which more 



