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- Right, sir.

- Oh, how was India? Enjoy it?

- Jolly good.

- Bridges.

Bridges, I shall be taking the modern sixth

for business management this term.

- I hope you don't mind.

- Yes. Yes, of course, Headmaster.

- Headmaster-

- Just a moment, Kemp.

I've made it late school Thursdays, okay?

Yes, Kemp. Sorry.

Headmaster, may the Dramatic Society

use your study for their Monday readings?

Oh, well, I'll have to come back to you

on that one, Kemp.

Padre, that was a super voluntary

you gave us this morning.

- What was it, 18th century?

- Buxtehude, Headmaster.

Really? Well, it was lovely.

Ahl

Here, you've heard what's happened

to the orchestra this term.

No girls from Springfield.

Complete ban.

Not fair. Why?

Oh, their breasts were getting too big.

Temptations of the devil.

How will we survive?

Excuse me. Do you mind

not picking your shag spots in here?

I think it best

if we ignore each other this term.

How the hell can we,

with you spewing pus all over the room?

You drips.

Shut up, Travis.

Then fancies flee away

I'll fear not what men say

I'll labor night and day

To be a pilgrim

Da-da-dum, da-da-da-da-dum

Dum, dum

Dum-dum-dum-dum

Da-da-dum, da-da-da-da-dum

Dum, dum

Dum-dum-dum-dum

Your holiday essays.

Graves - charming.

Keating - good.

Making an effort at last.

Denson - bad.

Cox, Stephans - Distribute.

I'm afraid, Michael Travis, I lost your essay

somewhere in the Mont Blanc Tunnel...

but I'm sure it was good.

Right.

Europe in the 19th century

and the growth of nationalism.

In studying the 19th century,

one thing will be clear:

That the growth of technology-

telegraph, cheap newspapers,

railways, transport -

is matched by a failure

of imagination, Denson...

a fatal inability to understand

the meaning and consequences...

of all these levers,

wires and railways.

Climaxing in 1914 when the German

kaiser is told by his generals...

that he cannot stop

the war he has started...

because it would spoil

the railway timetables...

upon which victory depended.

Or perhaps you fashionably

and happily believe...

that it's all a simple matter

of evil dictators...

rather than whole populations

of evil people like...

ourselves?

Do you disagree?

Don't you find this view of history facile?

No?

Do you have a view?

Well, if you insist on staring at me

like a load of Christmas puddings...

you can at least write.

Perhaps you'll allow me to teach you,

Travis, to make drudgery divine.

It has been said of George the Third...

that he was a mollusk

who never found his rock.

Said by whom, uh, Travis?

Plumb. J.H. Plumb?

Possibly.

What were the failures of the British

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