The Complete Stories (2010)
“He was himself a Granchesterian and had returned straight from the University after failing for a fellowship. There he had remained, growing slightly bald and slightly corpulent, known to generations of boys first as "Scottie," then of late years, while barely middle-aged, as "old Scottie"; a school "institution," whose precise and slightly nasal lamentations of modern decadence were widely parodied.
Granchester is not the most illustrious of English public schools but it is, or, as Scott-Kin...g would maintain, was, entirely respectable; it plays an annual cricket match at Lord's; it numbers a dozen or so famous men among its old boys, who, in general, declare without apology: "I was at Granchester"—unlike the sons of lesser places who are apt to say: "As a matter of fact I was at a place called —. You see at the time my father ..." When Scott-King was a boy and when he first returned as a master, the school was almost equally divided into a Classical and a Modern Side, with a group of negligible and neglected specialists called "the Army Class." Now the case was altered and out of 450 boys scarcely 50 read Greek.MoreLess
Granchester is not the most illustrious of English public schools but it is, or, as Scott-Kin...g would maintain, was, entirely respectable; it plays an annual cricket match at Lord's; it numbers a dozen or so famous men among its old boys, who, in general, declare without apology: "I was at Granchester"—unlike the sons of lesser places who are apt to say: "As a matter of fact I was at a place called —. You see at the time my father ..." When Scott-King was a boy and when he first returned as a master, the school was almost equally divided into a Classical and a Modern Side, with a group of negligible and neglected specialists called "the Army Class." Now the case was altered and out of 450 boys scarcely 50 read Greek.MoreLess
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