Re: School stories

On 03/04/2026 19:58, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Janet <[email protected]> posted:
> 
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> [email protected] says...
>>>
>>> On 2 Apr 2026 19:33:18 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:33:56 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
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>>>>> Both Kipling and Lewis wrote about Edwardian English public schools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lewis also mentioned schools in his fiction, most notably in "The Silver
>>>>> Chair", where he describes authoritarianism in what was ostensibly a
>>>>> libertarian school.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Lewis doesn't merely hint. He says quite clearly that there was sexual
>>> exploitation at the school he attended. There were not merely
>>> adolescent crushes, but there was systemic exploitation as well.
>>
>>
>>     I'd be surprised if Kilpling used the term hazing,  or was referring
>> to that American activity.  He was probably talking about  the
>> different British custom fagging
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging
>>
> I agree. The British term for hazing was ragging. It didn't happen at Oxford
> in my time (1961–1967), not at Wadham, anyway; at least, I never heard that
> it did. My sister never reported anything of that sort at St. Andrews. However,
> it did occur in some other universities.
> 
Well fagging was a distinctly boarding school system: in day school one 
was merely bullied by other bots and caned by the head master :-)


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