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...their broad principles the Eton and Association games have no very material difference. But whereas in the latter the game is begun by a free "kick-off," and the ball, when it passes out of play, except behind the goal lines, is thrown in at will by a player of the side opposing him who kicked it out, in the former the game begins by a "bully" formed opposite the point where it passed out of play. On either side are a "post" and two "sides," with others to back them up. These form down opposite each other, alternately under...
...Encyclopaedic writer, to whose learned dissertation on the game we have already owed our debt, does indeed make one statement to which we must venture to demur. Winchester and Harrow, he says, are "the chief exponents of the game wherein kicking alone is allowed as a means of propulsion." Eton "plays a hybrid game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation...
...students and graduaates of Eton, the great English preparatory school, are much perplexed over the interference of the Crown in the appointment of a gentleman to succeed the late Dr. Goodford, as head master of Eton. This being the first vacancy since the constitution of the governing body, the new provost will be nominated by the Crewn, a right which has always been hotly contested by the fellows in former days, as they asserted that it was a usurpation. The right of electing a provost was undoubtedly vested in the fellows by the statutes; in practice, however, they usually elected...
...average cost of a boy at Eton is estimated to be from L180 to L220; at Harrow, from L135 to L180; at Winchester, L115; at Rugby, L112; at Charter House, L110, and at Marlborough L110 to L100. The cost at Eton is therefore obviously excessive, and it is questioned whether any one connoted with it could give a good reason for this...
once offered by them to the best runner in school. A few years ago there was considerable discussion in England about the large amount of time given to athletics at Eton, and how study was secondary to sport, and so on in the same strain that we have so often heard. One particularly severe article appeared in the Edinborough Review, criticising harshly the condition of affairs at Eton. However, cause for complaint, if it ever existed, has, we believe, now disappeared...