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...earnestly urged to make some reply to these questions, even though not fully, bearing in mind that the value of the result will be out of all proportion to the labor expended. Men whom I have been unable to see can get their blanks by applying to the janitor of their building, or at my own room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS LIVES. | 5/22/1883 | See Source »

Lost - Notes on Palaeontology. Will the finder please return them to the janitor of Holworthy or else leave his address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 5/7/1883 | See Source »

Lost - Notes on Palaeontology. Will the finder please return them to the janitor of Holworthy or else leave his address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 5/5/1883 | See Source »

Lost - Notes on Palaeontology. Will the finder please return them to the janitor of Holworthy or else leave his address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 5/4/1883 | See Source »

...services which we commonly expect of a janitor are rendered for seniors or sixth-form men at Rugby, by the boys in the lower forms. The first-form boy blacks his senior's shoes, runs his errands, prepares his breakfast and holds himself in readiness to do almost anything that his senior wishes. This is called "fagging." "The sixth-form boy may be a tailor's son, the first-form fag the son of a duke; school distinctions take precedence of all others." This custom of fagging is gradually dying out, however, much to the disgust of the conservative fathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIFE AT RUGBY. | 5/1/1883 | See Source »

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