Robert Menzies' third year at Wesley was more successful:
"Though as a
man Menzies was to enjoy following football and cricket, observing
each as an art rather than a mere game, he was at Wesley not
very interested in and certainly incompetent at sport. Probably
because of this, Adamson [headmaster] never made him a prefect.
Preparing himself for examinations was Menzies' overriding consideration.
In his first two years at Wesley he did not particularly shine,
but his third year of work was more successful: at the end of
it Menzies won one of the twenty-five exhibitions, each worth £40,
awarded by the State for university study, as well as the highest
honours in English and History."
A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol 1 1894-1943, 1993
p 19.
Menzies
excells in the humanities and is awarded the C L Andrews Prize for
Poetry.
Throughout
his life, Menzies remains loyal to his old school and acknowledging,
in particular, his master, Harold Stewart for (in his words) “teaching
him to think with discipline”.