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The situation is very different in Oxford and the older Cambridge. British college men feel that are themselves or by proxy of some friend or relative the future governors of some part of a world fagging empire. The possibility that many of them will after graduation go out to the...
"I'd take it with enthusiasm myself if I needed it. Fortunately I've always had an enormous amount of vitality which has not shown any signs of failing me yet. But I would not hesitate for one minute if, I felt my powers fagging. I cannot imagine why any...
The social life of students in European universities is pleasant on the whole and but little remains of upper class tyranny. In British universities fagging has almost disapeared. Secret societies are rare. Social clubs are not uncommon but are too often only so in name. In Sweden they have reached...
The services which we commonly expect of a janitor are rendered for seniors or sixth-form men at Rugby, by the boys in the lower forms. The first-form boy blacks his senior's shoes, runs his errands, prepares his breakfast and holds himself in readiness to do almost anything...
When in the lower forms at Eton, says a recent English magazine, Gladstone had little severe experience in fagging, and afterward treated his own fags very leniently. One of Gladstone's fags, John Smith Mansfield, now a police magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not...