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Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil was born on Sept. 14, 1864, and grew up like any ordinary boy, but in the historic environment of Hatfield House, country seat of the Cecils. He was educated at Eton, and later migrated to Oxford, where he entered University College. Even when within the precincts of England's oldest university he took a lively interest in politics, and since his college days his whole life has been devoted to his country; for, as A. L. Kennedy wrote of his father, Lord Salisbury, he was " born of a class which habitually thinks of the interests...
SOCKING, the Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with CHUCK at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days", meaning he fasted...
...leader of the Hungarian royalists is coming to Spain to see me. His party hopes some day to provide my young son, 'King Otto,' with a throne. So they will ask to have him educated in England, preferably at Eton...
...great English public is tremendously worked up over the character of fifteen year old boys. The headmaster of Eton has stated in print that "It is only known to schoolmasters, and not to all of them, how large a proportion of boys are a little mad between the ages of 14 and 17. Weird fancies, always egotistic, suspiciousness, moroseness, solitariness, all these are common, but they present most diverse appearances to the observer. Among the rougher boys arson is not infrequent and kleptomania is fairly rampant with all classes." Frankly, the British public doesn't believe...
...ragged" for poor playing in a football game. The headmaster of Christ's Hospital was reported to have said that "If a boy acts badly as a linesman a mild kick is not an excessive punishment." The result was a storm of indignant protests. Then Canon Lyttleton of Eton published his opinions including the sentences quoted above. Followed more indignation. Interviews with headmasters, teachers and laymen representing every shade of opinion began to appear in the press. And apparently the controversy is still raging, with the late Lord Salisbury, whose public school experiences were much discussed a few years...