housemasters

Footsteps pounded in the corridors as streams of boys rushed back to their rooms, racing to reach their desks before they got bollocked by housemasters on patrol.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

Footsteps pounded in the corridors as streams of boys rushed back to their rooms, racing to reach their desks before they got bollocked by housemasters on patrol.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

Nevertheless, few schools require their housemasters to have special training as emotional counselors, and the ratio of housemasters to boarders at many schools is roughly 60 to 1.

Such, Such Were the Joys 2008

It also seeks to forge familiar relationships among counselors, dorm supervisors and faculty so professors or housemasters who spot signs of trouble can call someone they know, instead of phoning a random hot line.

After Virginia Tech 2007

At school, the houses had mostly been taken over, in the absence of their younger housemasters, by well meaning but incompetent elderly assistant masters; the prefects were young, and knowing that in a few weeks, at the most a few months, they would be “called up” to go to possible death, almost certain mutilation, cared little for school or house affairs.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

One of the housemasters had a Danish wife, and this lady's niece, a rather hefty girl of about twenty, was living with them for a year to improve - or rather, to perfect, for she was already fluent and idiomatic - her English.

The Girl In A Swing Adams, Richard, 1920- 1980

(Officially, however, she was addressed as Mum, probably a corruption of the ‘Ma’am’ used by public school boys to their housemasters’ wives.)

Such, Such Were the Joys 1947

Three weeks later the schools went back and half the housemasters in the country found their desks littered with letters from anxious parents demanding an assurance that their

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

It would be all right, of course, her coming to Brookfield; other housemasters were married.

Goodbye, Mr Chips Hilton, James, 1900-1954 1938

"You were late for breakfast to-day," said Mr. Seymour, in the horrid, abrupt way housemasters have.

The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories 1928