... had he not carefully been sent to a modern school where there was no fagging. – UTV, 164.
The Leys, Lowry's public school in Cambridge, was founded by a Methodist minister in 1875.
Above: The Ley's crest, with motto "In fide fiducia" (Latin: "In faith, trust"). Source: The Leys Fortnightly Vol. XLIX. Cambridge, 1925.
Above: Frontispiece, The Leys Fortnightly Vol. XLIX. Cambridge, 1925.
Lowry wrote short stories and regular hockey reports for The Leys Fortnightly under the initials C.M.L., or the pseudonym 'Camel'. Victor Doyen (1973) writes that Lowry treated the hockey reports as "exercises in creative writing, rather than statements of plan facts .... Not all of the students, however, appreciated those stories in their sports section. Indignant letters to the editor .... questioned the "Pantagruellian" kicks and other literary allusions and objected to typographical idiosyncrasies."