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Class 12 Mr. Chips

Mr. Chips Summary

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LESSON NO: 1

Mr. Chips was a retired school master.

• He lived at Mrs. Wickett’s for more than a decade after retirement.
• He was given to day-dreaming.
• He was born in 1848.
• He was a child just beginning to walk when he was taken to great exhibition.
• He could remember Wetherby’s time.
• He was twenty two years old, when he came to Brookfield.
• He had served for a year at Melbury before this.
• He could remember the day of his preliminary interview with Mr. Wetherby and his advice.
• He could not forget his first tremendous ordeal of taking the class.
• He was never below par despite his growing old age.

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LESSON NO: 2

Brookfield was an old foundation.

• In the region of Elizabeth at was established as a Grammar school.
• Its main structure was re-built in the region of George First.
• Wetherby, a headmaster, came in 1840.
• He restored its position. But in later history it remained an ordinary school.
• It accepted Mr. Chips an ordinary teacher, because it was a school of no repute.
• Mr. Chips was an ambitious man in his youth.
• He realized later on that he could not be a headmaster else-where.
• He settled himself that till he was retired and given pension.
• He went across the road to live at Mrs. Wickett’s.

LESSON NO: 3

He was a small but very comfortable and airy room at Mrs. Wickett’s.

• He liked it, though the house itself was ugly, because from her he could contract with the school.
• He entertained the boys as well as master with tea and cakes.
• He dismissed them punctually at five after the session has lasted for an hour.
• He was leading a pleasant, placid life with no worries.
• He was furnished simply and with school masterly taste.
• His books of study were, classical, of history, bells-letters and cheap editions of detective novels.
• He was not a very profound scholar despite his long years of teaching.
• So Chips, an old man white haired and only, little bald, lived there luxuriating in reading, talking, receiving callers busying himself with corrections for the next edition of Brookfield Directory.
• For his callers he was an eccentric man, very fussy about mixing the tea—-a typical bachelor.

LESSON NO: 4

Chips married in 1896.

• During the summer vacations he went up to the Lake District with his colleague, Rowden.
• Rowden went home after a week and Chips stayed alone at Wasdale Head.
• One day he saw a girl on Great Gable signaling to her friend farther down the mountain.
• He thought she was involved in difficulties. He hastened to help her and in doing so he wrenched his ankle.
• She helped him. Chips  was ill at ease, because he was conservative.
• He disliked modern women.
• She had modern views about women, politics.
• Despite their conflicting views, they fell in love.
• Before Chips could walk without a stick, they considered themselves engaged and they were married in London.

LESSON NO: 5

Chips recalled the incidents of the spring of 1896 in his hour of day-dreaming.

• He envisaged the great gable, re-smeit the washed air, and re-followed the ribbon of the pass across to stay Head.
• That time of dizzy happiness, the evening strolls, her cool voice and her gay laughter clearly lingered in his mind.
• Both had been eager about planning a future.
• She liked the  school-boys and his profession of teaching.
• He could not forget that morning when she had laughed in response his self denunciation.
• She had no parents and was married from the house of an ant in Ealing.

LESSON NO: 6

His marriage was triumphant success.

• Katherine won over Brookfield as she had conquered Chips.
• The boys as well as masters and even the wives of the masters were dominated by her charms.
• Above all, she exerted an immensely great influence on the formation and development of chips character.
• Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral sort of person.
• He was hard-working; he was conscious; but his work was without inspiration.
• She made him, to all appearances a new man.
• His eyes flashed; his mind began to work more adventurously; his sense of humour blossomed.
• He was obeyed, honoured but now he began to be loved by the boys. He gained popularity.
• Katherine made him broad-minded.

LESSON NO: 7

Chips  was pre-occupied with a host of incidents buried in the past with twilight at Mrs. Wickett’s.

• He envisaged Katherine running hastily along the corridors and playing on Violoncello.
• She was a good player and a fine musician.
• She advised him in every little problems that across.
• She advised to be lenient to the boys in general and to be strict with the stubborn sort of students.
• Chips wished to write those incidents of the past in the form of a book.
• Sometimes he went seven so far as to make desultory notes in an exercise book.
• But the work was greatly tiresome for him.
• Moreover, his recollections lost much of flavour when they were written down.
• All the same, there he was dreaming again before the fire, dreaming of times and incidents in which he alone could take secret interest.

LESSON NO: 8

The spring day of 1898 was unforgettable for him.

• He was terribly shocked by the death of his wife and his newly-born child.
• He was indisposed to receive condolences.
• He tried to busy himself with his routine work.
• The same day he received a lot of letters containing blank sheets of paper.
• He made no comment.
• A day afterwards he came to know that it was piece of April Foolery.

LESSON NO: 9

Chips shifted to his original bachelor quarters after the death of his wife and newly-born child.

• He did not give house mastership.
• The work, though not cure, proved sedative for him.
• For the first time the people noticed that he was getting on in years.
• Like marriage bereavement brought many changes in him.
• With his maturity he became self-confident.
• He did not feel different about his work and worth.
• He adopted peculiar mannerism in his habits and dress.
• Katherine had left him with a clambers that accorded well with his own inward emotions.
• He was not bitterly against Boers without being Pro-Boer.
• He was orthodox about Lloyd George and the famous budget.
• He was at an age when he could get away with every person.

LESSON NO: 10

Chips became the acting head after the demise of old Meldrum in 1900.

• Ralston was appointed as his successor.
• Ralston had an impressive personality. He was youngster of 37 years.
• The years before retirement had memorable pictures for him.
• He could not forget a May morning when the whole school had assembled to condole the death of King Edward.
• He remembered a summer morning when the railway men were on strike.
• Diamond Jubilee was another memorable event.
• Many other things rushed in his mind like Champagne suppers and unemployed merchers, Marconi, Home and H.M.S.
• He could not forget an April evening when he rebuked Grayson.
• Later on Chips had to commiserate with Grayson, the senior, for his son’s untimely death.

LESSON NO: 11

He had a dispute with Ralston in 1908.

• He asked him to retire.
• Chips had never considered about it.
• On this they began to argue.
• Ralston told him plainly that he had old-fashioned methods of teaching and he was disorderly in personal demeanour.
• Ralston raised objection to his out-of-date pronunciation.
• For Ralston Chips luxuriated too much in the past and not enough in the present and future.
• Chips thought that Ralston was running Brookfield like a factory which will produce money-mined people.
• Chips came  to know about his popularity when there was an outburst of sympathy for him and talk of riot, in case Ralston made Chips to resign.

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