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VENTILATING THE CHAPEL 189
charged with much of the Slough ftoad and South
Meadow, remained to spoil the spotless and most shapely
integuments that Tom Brown could make I So I took
up my pen and wrote energetically to the Provost, Dr.
Hornby. Warre had just become Headmaster. For a
month, no reply. Wrote again. Hornby consulted Warre
and revealed a deep misgiving that the hassocks were so
handy for throwing that they would be used as missiles,
and pandemonium might result. Perhaps he thought
the wetbobs would be at a disadvantage. However, to
my astonishment, I learnt that the perilous change was to
be made: at first only for the bigger, more decorous boys
at the west end ; if they remained quiescent under the
temptation, the new furniture would be extended eastwards.
As Headmaster I was able to improve the Chapel
arrangements further and in a still more important respect,
When full, the building holds-excluding the ante­
Chapel-about 600 boys and 100 adults. The exhalations
from the congested mass of human beings were in summertime
indescribable ; and never shall I forget the wealth
of language employed by my old friend M. D. Hill on the
subject of the atmosphere at the 'end of the long Sundaymorning
service ; for be it known there is reason to
believe that no window in the building had been opened
for 450 years, certainly not since Wilder's stained-glass
gifts were put up in the middle of the last century. I
found my good friend Holloway-Calthorp, the College
Dursar, in a good humour, and soon after mighty scaffoldings
were erected and sixteen windows made to open, to
the unspeakable relief of the congregation
'Ne&th the baleful -of Siriuo,
When tho pootmao olowlier jog,
And tho OS '-omoo delirious,
And the muu.le dooka tho dog.
One word of retrospect after nearly forty years of
schoolmastering seems advisable here.
It would be possible for anyone casting up a reckoning