SCHOOL-LIFE AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE [Illustration: A “HOT” AT FOOT BALL THE COMMONERS HAVE RED AND THE COLLEGE BOYS BLUE JERSEYS.] SCHOOL-LIFE AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE; OR, The Reminiscences of a Winchester Junior UNDER THE OLD RÉGIME, 1835-40. _WITH A GLOSSARY OF WORDS, PHRASES, AND CUSTOMS, PECULIAR TO WINCHESTER COLLEGE._ BY ROBERT BLACHFORD MANSFIELD, AUTHOR OF “THE LOG OF THE WATER-LILY,” “THE WATER-LILY ON THE DANUBE,” ETC. ETC. _THIRD EDITION._ [Illustration] LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270-71 STRAND. P. & G. WELLS, WINCHESTER. 1893. PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. A.D. 1893 being the quincentennial anniversary of our glorious foundation, an enterprising publisher has undertaken to bring out a third edition of this sketch of the life of a Winchester Junior in the dark ages of 1835-40. Thirty years have elapsed since the book was originally written, twenty since the second edition was brought out, and fifty-seven since I first became a Wykehamist. No one is more aware than myself how entirely devoid of literary merit is this little book; but as it is a true and faithful account of the state of the school under a system that has long been superseded, any interest that it may have must increase from year to year, as the times of which it treats become more distant, and the manners and customs which it depicts present a greater contrast to those of the present day. Except in the last chapter, which I have rewritten, there is but little difference between this and the previous editions, firstly because I have nothing to add or alter in my record, and secondly, because the work being stereotyped, considerable expense would have been incurred by altering all those passages which, written in 1862, allude to the then existence of Dr. Moberly, the state of Meads, and Antechapel at that date, &c., &c., which the reader can correct for himself, but which do not in any way affect the object of the work, viz., the economy of the school in 1835-40.