The Changing of the Guard

By Gadfly on Oct 4, 2015

At the Rock Spring School for Boys, Professor Ellis Fowler teaches poetry and literature to a group of boys and reads from the works of Housman. Some of the boys are interested, some are bored. Fowler notes it's the last class of the semester and lets them out early, but notes they have all passed and he gently berates them for being dunderheads and then offers them a Merry Christmas and good luck in their future. The Headmaster calls Fowler into his office and notes that the professor hasn't…