Mahaffy : Robert Pentland (d.1943), contemporary of Sri Aurobindo at Cambridge, he passed the Historical Tripos in the first class. After working as a journalist for some years, he served at the Bar. During World War I he was an officer in the Army.
... school I would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic & bombastic. The Great O.B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were & when I had answered he said "That wretched hole!" then turning to Mahaffy "How rude we are to our scholars! we get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down." 1890 Page 121 ...
... it would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and bombastic. The great O .B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were and when I had answered he said, 'That wretched hole!' then turning to Mahaffy, 'How rude, we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down.'" ¹ Aurobindo passed the First Part of the... He went to the High Court and was anxious to render help to Sri Aurobindo, but did not know how to do it. Among Aurobindo's contemporaries at Cambridge may be mentioned Ferrers, Robert Pentland Mahaffy, Felix Xavier De Souza, K. G. Deshpande and Sir Harisingh Gaur. K.G. Deshpande met Sri Aurobindo again in Baroda. Being brought up in a foreign country without a background Page 23 ...
... would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and bombastic. The great O. B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were and when I had answered he said, 'That wretched hole!', then turning to Mahaffy 1 : 'How rude we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down!'" This was the letter reproduced by Dr. K. D... and prose into Latin and Greek, and vice versa. Needless to specify that candidates were not accepted unless they had a good school record in examinations. As a result 1. Robert Pentland Mahaffy, who became a distinguished Kingsman (History Prizeman, 1891) and an eminent lawyer. Page 185 The main gate of King's College, Cambridge (with the Chapel on the ...
... have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and bombastic. The great O.B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were and when I had answered he said: 'that wretched hole!' (and) then turning to Mahaffy: 'How Page 8 Sri Aurobindo at St. Paul's School, London, 1884 Sri Aurobindo at King's College, Cambridge, 1890 -92 rude we are to ...
... . I thought myself that it was the best thing I have ever done.... When Sri Aurobindo had answered a question about his rooms, Oscar Browning exclaimed, "That wretched hole!" and, turning to Mahaffy, added: "How rude we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down." 28 In his well-documented Life of Sri ...
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