I had, however, to give the Master credit for the way in which he would often shower his partial favours on some boy who had climbed the ladder of learning and risen from a Board School to become a Scholar or exhibitioner of Balliol.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Fred Foster-who had been staying with me-and I parted at Oxford railway-station without falling on each other's necks, but although we did not cause any further obstruction on a platform already far too crowded, we understood that the friendship which had prospered during so many years at school was not going to be interrupted because he had got a scholarship at Oriel while I was an exhibitioner of St. Cuthbert's.
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley
He was as sick as blazes, and I shall hear more stuff about being an exhibitioner," I answered.
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley