Re: School stories
The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
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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: >>> >>>> On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:33:56 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 :-) -- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H.L.Mencken