[Nevill] shared my dislike of school traditions, and decided compulsory games were the worst. Of these we considered cricket the most objectionable, because it wasted the most time in the best part of the year. Nevill suggested a campaign in favour of lawn-tennis. We were not seriously devoted to tennis, but found it our handiest weapon against cricket - the game, we wrote, in which the selfishness of the few did not excuse the boredom of the many.
R. Graves, Goodbye to all that (1929), 51
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