ABSTRACT
AT puberty one begins life afresh and yet not anew. One of Freud's most interesting discoveries was that in the years immediately following puberty one is engaged in both reproducing and re-creating on another plane the stages of one's earliest development, of the first four years of life that are commonly blotted out from memory. A special feature of the school was the opportunity it gave for magnificent walks in mountainous country. Study life, with its camaraderie and its evasion of housemasters, ran its accustomed course. The feat the boys most enjoyed was swarming down, and afterwards up, a rope let down some thirty feet from our window in the tower of the college. Apart from mild "affairs", homosexuality appeared to have no serious vogue in the school. There were many advantages in the non-resident system of the university and in the total absence of supervision, proctorial or otherwise.
