THE HARE MEMORIAL BUILDING “The most important element in the Quadrangle”
Big School, August 14 1912.
fives court, a fund to increase the salaries of masters, or the rebuilding of the chapel. Two suggestions, however, won the most favour of the 120 Old Boys present at the meeting: a prize for batting and bowling averages and a building. A subscription list was opened with the aim of raising £5000 and a sub-committee was formed to get the fund-raising underway. By July 1913, £2252 had been received or promised, and conversations began with the Board of Governors
about the location of the building. The Old Boys were of the opinion that it should be on the site of the “tin classrooms”, adjacent to School House and that it would “add to the symmetry of that side of the Quadrangle by replacing a structure that is not handsome, and also it will have the further advantage of softening the relation between the severe type of Big School and the very questionable type of the new house occupied by the present Headmaster, and the collective impression given by that row of buildings
The President of the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association moved “that the Old Boys of Christ’s College desire to give expression to their gratitude and thankfulness for the late Parson Hare’s faithful work in the School during the past 35 years, and to record their deep regret at the loss the school has sustained by his death”. Various proposals were made as to what this memorial might be: a scholarship, a racquet and
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