Re: School stories

On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 11:07:49 +0200, [email protected] (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:

>Titus G <[email protected]> wrote:
>[Fto alt.books]
>> 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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Thanks for that. Long-staning mystery solves, well sort of. 


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