Re: School stories

On 04/04/2026 14:48, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 01:52:47 +0100, [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote:
> 
>> Liz Tuddenham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> Kipling wrote about the hazing of the younger students by the older ones.
>>>>> In 'Surprised by Joy' Lewis strongly hints there was a sexual element.
>>>>
>>>> It was punishable by expulsion if it was found out.
>>>> 'bestiality' (masturbation) was an expulsion event.
>>>
>>> I thought "bestiality" was specifically having sex with animals.
>>
>> Our school headmaster called it "beastliness".
> 
> If my memory is correct, in those other school stories, by "Frank
> Richards" (pseudonym for an anonymous team of writers, like "Franklin
> W, Dixon"), "beastliness" was how his friends treated the fat owl of
> the Remove" (I never did discover what the "Remove" was). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remove_(education)

P.S. (Further to this thread, I have found an ebook of Stalky and Co to
download and am looking forward to rereading it many decades later.)