[lit-ideas] The Substance of My World
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:03:21 EDT
From the OED
b. Westminster School. An older pupil who is responsible for the proper
conduct of a new boy, called his ‘shadow’.
1845 College & T.B. Life at Westm. 25 Oct., After my first week at School,
I started altogether on my own account, my Substance then having nothing
more to do with me. 1899 W. K. R. BEDFORD Outcomes of Old Oxford 85 Every
neophyte was consigned to the tutelage of some boy already in the school..the
shortcomings of the shadow, or tyro, were credited to the preceptor, or
substance, and visited with penalties upon the latter.
JLS
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