I left the Holy Trinity School at the end of 1937 and started at the CMS Grammar School in January 1938. I believe there were entrance examinations to determine into what form boys were placed but I was admitted without an entrance examination, at least not a formal one. One day during the Christmas vacation, on the instructions of my father, I went to see the Principal of the Grammar School, the Rev. Mr P. Hycy Willson. I timidly climbed up what seemed to be an endless flight of stairs, past what I came to know later as the chapel, to the Principal's living quarters. Mr Hycy Willson was well known, both at Fourah Bay College where he had also taught and at the Grammar School, as a psychologist whose rather unconventional approach to education did not always endear him to the old boys and others who placed, according to him, an inordinately high value on certificates. He received me very kindly and after a few minutes' conversation sat me down in a large armchair by a window overlooking Kroo Bay with a view across to Prince of Wales School on the King Tom Peninsula.