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... plays , Henry VI . is known to most Englishmen chiefly as the founder of Eton , as a ' royal saint ' not lightly to be ' taxed with vain expense . ' When in 1862 the Royal Commission on Public Schools was hearing the evidence of an Eton ...
... plays , Henry VI . is known to most Englishmen chiefly as the founder of Eton , as a ' royal saint ' not lightly to be ' taxed with vain expense . ' When in 1862 the Royal Commission on Public Schools was hearing the evidence of an Eton ...
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... play together on week- days , or walk together on Sundays , or breakfast in each other's rooms . After lock - up , ' which varies from a quarter to nine in summer to five in winter , houses are not mutually accessible , and thus the ...
... play together on week- days , or walk together on Sundays , or breakfast in each other's rooms . After lock - up , ' which varies from a quarter to nine in summer to five in winter , houses are not mutually accessible , and thus the ...
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... play more together and mix more together and perhaps understand each other better now than they did . Dr. Goodford says the collegers are , ' intellectually , the élite of the school , ' and so , no doubt , if ex- aminations be the true ...
... play more together and mix more together and perhaps understand each other better now than they did . Dr. Goodford says the collegers are , ' intellectually , the élite of the school , ' and so , no doubt , if ex- aminations be the true ...
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... season of the year , and there they shall remain till eleven in the forenoon , and in the afternoon from one of the clock till six . ' The scholars are not to play ' except on Thursdays only , sometimes when the 70 Our Public Schools .
... season of the year , and there they shall remain till eleven in the forenoon , and in the afternoon from one of the clock till six . ' The scholars are not to play ' except on Thursdays only , sometimes when the 70 Our Public Schools .
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play ' except on Thursdays only , sometimes when the weather is fair , and on Saturdays or half- holidays after evening prayer . ' ' None above the First Form shall speak English in the school , or when they go to play together ...
play ' except on Thursdays only , sometimes when the weather is fair , and on Saturdays or half- holidays after evening prayer . ' ' None above the First Form shall speak English in the school , or when they go to play together ...
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