Re: School stories

Titus G <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.)

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Jan