ABSTRACT
Until the Second World War public school masters, it appears, were recruited almost exclusively from Oxford and Cambridge. 1 For most of the preceding hundred years, these universities had been, in the words of Noel Annan, 'little more than finishing schools for public schoolboys'. 2 Firmly implanted habits and the security of personal wealth' meant that the enthusiasms and practices ofschooldays were extended into student days, with the result that during this period games were uppermost in the minds of many.
