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Campbell College located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and founded in 1894 comprises a preparatory school department (junior age) and a senior Northern Ireland 'Voluntary Grammar' school, the latter meaning, in terms of provision of education, a government funded, selective school. The school is one of a number of schools in the state funded ...
Campbell Story. Campbell College first opened its doors in 1894 thanks to philanthropist Henry James Campbell and has been educating boys from all over the world ever since. The stunning 100 acre woodland campus sits on the edge of Belfast and the original redbrick Victorian building remains a striking centre piece of the College today.
- Relationships with Masters
- ‘Rebellious Individualism’
- Sport
In 1908, there were 16 masters at Campbell, that gave a teacher/pupil ratio of around one teacher to twelve students.10As a result, many pupils developed intense relationships with their teachers that were both positive and negative. The boys gave their masters nicknames. Headmaster MacFarland was ‘Billy’. Mathematics master Raymond Beaven was know...
A key part of daily life at Campbell was the constant struggle of the boys against the ‘system’. Dodds described the school having a ‘distinctively Ulster ethos…a tradition of sturdy and often rebellious individualism’.17 Dodds said that William Semple (OC 913) and himself ‘took to smoking pipes…and experimented gingerly with alcohol stolen from th...
Sport played a central part in most Edwardian public schools and CCB was no exception. In the first edition of the school magazine Touchstone (which was superseded by the Campbellian) the school adopted its sports colours: black and white.21 The importance of sport was highlighted at the first Speech Day in 1901. Headmaster Robert McNeill made the ...
Intro to Classmates and Comrades. Before our Men Behind the Glass became soldiers they were schoolmates and comrades. It is important to consider the social and cultural context of life as a pupil at Campbell College Belfast, which educated them and shaped them as boys and men before and during the war. Soldiers featured in this story.
Sep 19, 2016 · A. Campbell College is a Voluntary B Grammar School and as such we charge a capital fee: for a day pupil these fees are £2,600 a year, that is £50 a week, £7 a day.
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About. A Brief History. Campbell College first opened its doors in 1894 thanks to philanthropist Henry James Campbell and has been educating boys from all over the world ever since. The stunning 100 acre woodland campus sits on the edge of Belfast and the original redbrick Victorian building remains a striking centre piece of the College today.
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Before our Men Behind the Glass became soldiers they were schoolmates and comrades. It is important to consider the social and cultural context of life as a pupil at Campbell College Belfast, which educated them and shaped them as boys and men before and during the war. By July 1917, 77 OCs had died in the Great War.
