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...less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools is in more or less severe training...
...situation of Harrow is singularly pleasant and suitable for a school. Although the town is only ten or twelve miles from London, the green meadows and hills, the beautiful woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible...
...Harrow that Lord Byron prepared for college, and he has commemorated the beauties of the place and his love for it in several poems. A verse from a poem, on the occasion of a visit to Harrow in after years, illustrates somewhat amusingly his life there...
...says, with regard to leaving Harrow for Cambridge University : "When I first went up to college it was a new and heavy-hearted scene for me. I so much disliked leaving Harrow, that it broke my very rest for the last quarter with counting the days that remained...
...athletics, Harrow is, of course, actively interested. The Thames is convenient for boating, and Eton gives fine practice to all the Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...