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...strange that America, the very birth-place of rifle-shooting, should be outstripped by England in the adoption of the sport by colleges and schools, yet it is a well known fact that, at the great annual meetings of the National Rifle Association of Great Britian, the teams from Eton, Harrow, and Rugby roll up excellent scores, and make a most creditable showing on the score cards...
...Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees and furnishes the table, and pockets the profits or the loss. It is always a profit, and generally a good one. Teaching is a much more...
...chumming," so common in American colleges, is a rare one in England. "In Rugby there are dormitories in which the boys sleep, and sitting-rooms in which they gather for social life, but each boy has his room for study, usually without even a single room-mate. In Eton, at least in the 'college,' the study room and bed-room are all one, each boy having his own solitary apartment...
Just before Gladstone entered Eton, in 1821, the Etonian, edited by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, had run its short, brilliant career; and Gladstone, though a Lower Boy, got acquainted with some of the contributors to that periodical, who used to come and breakfast with his brother Thomas. Among these were some who had acquired a real renown through their writings, and as Gladstone rose to the higher forms, the purpose of founding a magazine naturally suggested itself to him as one of the only methods that lay open to him for achieving scholastic distinction...
...noted, however, that if there was always plenty of talent at Eton, able editors were as scarce there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness of character as well as genius and judgment. Canning, Mackworth, Pread, and Gladstone all knew how to recruit a staff, keep it up to the best standard of work, and prevent its members from falling out. If he had not become a statesman he might have done wonders in conducting a London daily newspaper...