Word: etonisms
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...students at Eton College made a five horse power steam engine, which is now used in the college shops for turning lathes, and now each of the elder boys has his seperate forge...
...Everyday Life at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Other Great Public Schools," by Charles Eyre Pascoe, has been recently published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York...
...late Lord Beaconsfield's residence at Hughenden is now occupied by an Australian millionaire named Wilson, whose eldest son is at Eton School. It so happened that Garelon Wilson was among the Eton boys who interfered with the man MacLean when he attempted a few weeks ago to shoot the Queen at Windsor station, and the further interesting fact is made public that he punched the miscreant with his umbrella...
...added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford and Cambridge this especially popular sport of their youth. The first races on the Cam were "bumping" races; that is, one boat started first, and if the following crew could run their bow into the stern of the other this was victory. This...
...evening a man in the station yard fired a pistol at her. No one was injured by the shot. The man, who gave his name as Roderick McLean, was arrested and placed in the Windsor police station. He stated that hunger actuated the crime. A crowd, among whom several Eton students were prominent, attempted to lynch the would-be assassin, but were prevented by the police. The general opinion is that the act was the result of lunacy...