Word: eton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Meteor of Rugby and the Etonian of Eton both reflect credit upon the English schools; all the matter in these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter...
AFTER reading the Eton College Chronicle, one is impressed with the fact that the English climate is far more suited than our climate to out-door sports...
shows the loyalty of her Majesty's subjects at Eton School...
...some races recently held at Eton, the winner ran a mile in 4 min. 43 sec. In a poem in a recent number of the Etonian, it is interesting to notice that "cher enfant" is made to rhyme with "upon...
...have received a perfect shower of Meteors from Rugby. The Eton College Chronicle has also reached us. The matter contained in these papers is of purely local interest; they are sporting journals of average merit, and as they make no pretence to literary excellence, it would be ungracious to criticise them further...