Word: boys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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81Wanted. - A tutor for a boy of eight, three forenoon hours a week until the first week in June. Apply to James, 18 Garden...
...week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical...
...will feel as if he amounted to anything. If I can't enter college when I'm seventeen, I'd rather wait over a year and go in the class of '97, for then at least I'll be in the class of '01." The father laughs at the boy and teases him, but he says the youngster has taken the matter so seriously to heart that he is not sure whether even the nine years preparation that still remain will drive the notion out of his head. The dilemma is an amusing one, and affords opportunity for curious speculation...