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... fellows , while Mr. Halford Vaughan inclined to the less amazing interpretation , which made it at least include the boys on the foundation . However that may be , it is well known that Eton College in its original shape contained no ...
... fellows , while Mr. Halford Vaughan inclined to the less amazing interpretation , which made it at least include the boys on the foundation . However that may be , it is well known that Eton College in its original shape contained no ...
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... fellows thought it a favourable opportunity to assert their indepen- dence , and proceeded to elect a provost of their own . Acting in conformity with their statutes , they assembled in the college chapel and invoked the Divine aid in ...
... fellows thought it a favourable opportunity to assert their indepen- dence , and proceeded to elect a provost of their own . Acting in conformity with their statutes , they assembled in the college chapel and invoked the Divine aid in ...
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... fellows . The fellows are a curious and interesting body of men . They have all been masters , and in this respect they differ for the better from the fellows of Winchester , who are perhaps the purest specimens of concrete abuses now ...
... fellows . The fellows are a curious and interesting body of men . They have all been masters , and in this respect they differ for the better from the fellows of Winchester , who are perhaps the purest specimens of concrete abuses now ...
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... fellows were , they have clung round Henry the Sixth's Foundation for four hundred and thirty - nine years . During those years the changes in the world outside the school have been far greater than the changes in the school itself ...
... fellows were , they have clung round Henry the Sixth's Foundation for four hundred and thirty - nine years . During those years the changes in the world outside the school have been far greater than the changes in the school itself ...
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... fellows left untouched , are in many ways a distinct and peculiar body , whose manners and conduct are at least as well worth study , as those of the curious specimens of schoolboys and under- graduates presented to the notice of the ...
... fellows left untouched , are in many ways a distinct and peculiar body , whose manners and conduct are at least as well worth study , as those of the curious specimens of schoolboys and under- graduates presented to the notice of the ...
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