During history class, Dr. Scannell induced two celebrated mimics, Hunt and Green, to take him off at his usual terrorisation of the Junior Pass Latin class. They did so perfectly and we had great fun. – O’Connor and I are perpetually arguing about different things and it is really great practice in oratory for us to be haranguing each other about the Chinese civilisation, historical controversies etc. – Dr. Scannell is now putting up a wireless for the house, and is establishing a debating society, so we are getting on! Finished ‘Hamlet’ for English and started the ‘Dreißigjährige Krieg’ [The Thirty Years’ War by Schiller]. – Had piano lesson, was quite good. Have finished my L.C.H. course, so am going back to my Beethoven Variations. – It is extraordinary, but in spite of Krim’s surrender, the tribes are still holding out in Morocco, though the reports in paper are very scanty – and untrue.
