Produced by Steve Read, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE [Illustration: LORD'S] 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 CHAPTER ONE THE HEADMASTER