nine o'clock
But you ought to go down and see Skinner 's eye sometime . It 's a beautiful bit of work . ' -LSB- 2 -RSB- On the following day , at nine o'clock , the term formally began . There is nothing of Black Monday about the first day of term at a public school . Black Monday is essentially a private school institution . At Beckford the first day of every term was a half holiday .