Word: borstal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scheme, a lady magistrate in the sleepy little (pop. 180) village of Spennithorne, England became so agitated that she was moved to sound off one day on a public bus. The Rev. Joseph N. Jory, it seemed, was about to bring some inmates from Her Majesty's Borstal Institution at Hatfield (one of the 18 Borstal reformatories in England and Wales) to his Spennithorne boys' camp. He was also bringing along some Oxford students to live with them. The lady magistrate did not mind the Oxonians, but the idea of having a gang of wild delinquents around...
...from the slums of Leeds, got a letter from the chaplain of Oxford's Pembroke College explaining that a group of Christian Fellowship undergraduates had offered to serve as counselors. The letter gave Jory another idea. Perhaps, he reasoned, the Oxonians might be just the people to give Borstal boys a glimpse into a world they had never known...
Nonstop. On the Isle of Wight, one of the competitors in a cross-country foot race organized for inmates of the Camp Hill Borstal reformatory failed to turn up when the outing was over...