Re: School stories
Titus G <[email protected]>
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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.)