ABSTRACT
In 1908 board school boys can scarcely have numbered more than a dozen at Oxford and Cambridge together. Murry himself knew of only two, and both had come by way of Christ’s Hospital. Few schools were well enough endowed to provide exhibitions; and without exhibitions worth £70 in addition to a scholarship worth £100, he could not have afforded to go up. As it was, he was by no means badly off. Many a student today, recalling what the pound could buy then, would consider him fortunate. During the Long Vacation of 1909, however, Fox invited him and three others for a month at Snape, in Suffolk, studying and sailing on the Aide. As a schoolboy, he had passed evening after evening dreaming of cruising with his friends; now the reality proved as good as the dream.
