The Debating Society remained active throughout the war. Detailed accounts of meetings were recorded in the Society’s ledger and published accounts featured in the School’s magazine, The Elizabethan.

The motions were often on topical subjects and it is not surprising that a number of motions in the Play Term focused on the War. The first debate of the year was concerned with who was responsible for the conflict.

It might be surprising to us today, but the Westminster pupils of 1914 were fairly sympathetic to the Kaiser, ultimately thinking that he was ‘more to be pitied than feared’.