The motion was carried by a majority of 1.
In those days, too, Baden-Powell was famous as an artist, and his sketches, with the left hand, were admired and commented upon by masters as well as boys.

One can fancy with what great reverence B.-P.
the caricaturist must have looked upon Thackeray's pencil in the Charterhouse Library--the pencil of the great man whose shilling he was then hoarding with the jealousy of a miser.
Baden-Powell's quality as a schoolboy may be judged by his later life.
Few things are so pleasant about him as his intense loyalty to his old school.

Before leaving India for England in 1898, he wrote to Mr.
Girdlestone, asking his old House Master to send to his London address a list of all the interesting fixtures at Charterhouse, so that he might see what was going on directly he arrived in England.

Whenever he is in the old country he pays a visit to Godalming, and one of his last acts before leaving for South Africa was to call on Dr.
Haig-Brown at the Charterhouse, where he first went to school, to bid his old Head a brave and cheerful farewell.

And what was more English, what more typical of the public-school man, than the letter B.-P.