I winder if he had to walk uphill both ways in waist-deep snow to get to his classes as well.
(Note: when you're a kid, waist-deep is a lot easier to reach than it is as an adult.)
To Paul’s School, it being Apposition-day there. I heard some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys’ used to be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as ours were in our time.