John Hamilton Wetherby was born in 1820 and died in 1888. He was the headmaster of Brookfield School from 1860 until his death. See more

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After his retirement dinner, Chips is told of the assassination of "some Austrian arch-duke," leading to the outbreak of "the great war." Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand was killed on June 28, 1914, when public schools like Brookfield would not have been in session and students and faculty would not be on campus. See more