Mystery of prefects’ expulsion

 

Here’s an intriguing short newspaper report from 1928 that leaves more questions than it answers.

Three senior prefects were expelled after they ‘bathed in a forbidden pool.’

‘Other incidents occurred, and two of the boys were asked to leave at once.’

The headmaster said he considered the prefects should be ‘degraded’ from office and then thought it wiser that they should go.

It is not reported whether a trip over the back of the armchair in the headmaster’s study was considered as a viable option.

The headmaster finally appealed, ‘I think it would be best for the school and the boys concerned if the whole matter be allowed to drop.’

Some hope: We’re still talking about it 95 years later ….

As published in the Staffordshire Sentinel, (Stoke-on-Trent, England), 6 August 1928.

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