Chapter I: Front Matter

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LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF
SCHOOL LIFE

BY IAN HAY

AUTHOR OF "A SAFETY MATCH"

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED
FROM PASTEL DRAWINGS BY
LEWIS BAUMER

BOSTON
LE ROY PHILLIPS

_First Edition published October nineteen
hundred fourteen; reprinted May
nineteen fifteen_

_Printed in Scotland by_
BALLANTYNE, HANSON, & CO.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

TO
THE MEMBERS
OF
THE MOST RESPONSIBLE
THE LEAST ADVERTISED
THE WORST PAID
AND
THE MOST RICHLY REWARDED
PROFESSION
IN THE WORLD

THE LIST OF CONTENTS

I. THE HEADMASTER _page_ 1

II. THE HOUSEMASTER 35

III. SOME FORM-MASTERS 57

IV. BOYS 91

V. THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE 121

VI. SCHOOL STORIES 149

VII. "MY PEOPLE" 175

VIII. THE FATHER OF THE MAN 205

THE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_reproduced from drawings by_ LEWIS BAUMER

LORD'S _Frontispiece_

THE HEADMASTER OF FICTION _page_ 16

THE SCHOOLBOY OF FICTION 32

THE DAREDEVIL 48

THE LUNCHEON INTERVAL: PORTRAIT OF
A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS SCORED
FIFTY RUNS 64

THE FRENCH MASTER: (I) FICTION,
(II) FACT 88

THE INTELLECTUAL 104

THE NIPPER 120

THE FAG: "SIC VOS NON VOBIS" 152

THE SCHOOLGIRL'S DREAM 176

RANK AND FILE 192

THE MAN OF THE WORLD 208

NOTE

_These sketches originally appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine," to the proprietors of which I am indebted for permission to reproduce them in book form._

IAN HAY

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE