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- c.1911 (Creation)
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1 postcard, 3 copies
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One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Soon after his arrival as H.M., Costley White decreed that all Under School Forms on the Classical Side should do a modicum of Science (Physics). Tho’ accorded a somewhat mixed reception, this was a wise measure.
I am thankful for the elements of Physics (Archimedes’ Principle etc) that I learnt while in CVI under the gentle and precise F.O.M. Earp (whom we classicists liked well).
Those first two periods of elementary Science on Wednesday mornings were a welcome relief to the hard grind in Classics under the relentless E.L. Fox.
The chief impression of Science was how easy it all was by comparison! Lectures were taken quite light-heartedly, and when experiments were being conducted, F.O.M.E. could naturally not devote attention to more than two boys at a time. Consequently my partner (Dennis Binyon) and myself had many a mild lark between his visits to our pitch!
It was noticeable also during Prep how little work scientists had to do compared with classics!'
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- Chalk, Richard Seymour, 1905-1985 (Subject)
- Binyon, Denis Edmund Fynes-Clinton, 1905-1970 (Subject)