Word: etonisms
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Teams from Eton, Harrow and Rugby will shoot at the coming rifle meeting at Wimbledon...
...Arthur Wellesley Peel, the new speaker of the English House, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford...
...were erected, together with a chapel. The chapel has since been replaced by a larger and finer edifice, and lately the fine Vaughan library and a school hospital have been built. Buron was a graduate of this school; also Peel, Canning, Sheridan, and many other men of note, although Eton bears the palm for educating remarkable...
...both these passages, as thus (probably not quite correctly) reported convey decidedly erroneous ideas, of which the interest of your readers require the correction. It is quite true that both several of the more celebrated "public schools" of England, e. g., Winchesher, Eton, Winchester, Merchant Taylors' (London), Westminster, and also a very large number of "public" or "grammar" schools (founded three hundred years ago for teaching Latin grammar as the necessary key to all higher education in the revival period) were, by their founders' wills connected with, or placed under the supervision of certain colleges at Oxford and Cambridge...
...instance, at King's College, Cambridge, besides many other open scholarship, there are, on one foundation, forty-eight of about L80 a year, of which 24 are appropriated to Eton School and College, whose successful pupils also get rooms and "commons" (board) free till the taking of the B. A. Degree. Subsequently, if their scholarship and conduct continues to be satisfactory, they have preference for certain fellowships at King...