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Page 35
... once . He is speaking of ' Pop , ' or the School Debating Society , and he says , ' Boys are often elected into it as good football players . ' We had always thought that the foot - and - mouth disease was confined to sheep and cattle ...
... once . He is speaking of ' Pop , ' or the School Debating Society , and he says , ' Boys are often elected into it as good football players . ' We had always thought that the foot - and - mouth disease was confined to sheep and cattle ...
Page 37
... once on half - holidays , as a guarantee that they had not strayed too far from the precincts of the school . On whole school - days , from the necessity of the case , no Deus ex machinâ was required . It appar- ently struck people in ...
... once on half - holidays , as a guarantee that they had not strayed too far from the precincts of the school . On whole school - days , from the necessity of the case , no Deus ex machinâ was required . It appar- ently struck people in ...
Page 41
... once a fortnight a paper to be written by one of its members . Probably no one who does not under- stand Eton will believe that this tolerably harmless association , which had every desire to live on good terms with persons uninterested ...
... once a fortnight a paper to be written by one of its members . Probably no one who does not under- stand Eton will believe that this tolerably harmless association , which had every desire to live on good terms with persons uninterested ...
Page 42
... once said by an outspoken pessimist that boys recognised no vice except stealing . That is a hard saying , and we fear that if it includes the theft of books and umbrellas it is scarcely accurate . Cruelty , if it be very gross and ...
... once said by an outspoken pessimist that boys recognised no vice except stealing . That is a hard saying , and we fear that if it includes the theft of books and umbrellas it is scarcely accurate . Cruelty , if it be very gross and ...
Page 55
... once described , with curious infelicity of diction , as the peculium of the Fellows of King's . It is now many years since the first ' alien ' was appointed ; but King's still monopolises a large number of these lucrative posts , and ...
... once described , with curious infelicity of diction , as the peculium of the Fellows of King's . It is now many years since the first ' alien ' was appointed ; but King's still monopolises a large number of these lucrative posts , and ...
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