Word: reptonian
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...British public school named Repton (465 students) seems to be a stepping stone to the primacy of the Church of England. The last two Archbishops of Canterbury (William Temple and Geoffrey Francis Fisher) have been former headmasters of Repton. Last week Queen Elizabeth II named an old Reptonian to succeed the late Cyril Forster Garbett as Archbishop of York...
...Church of England, white-haired, judicially jowled Reptonian . Ramsey may eventually succeed his former headmaster...
...when he learned that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...
...there are many students' journals in England published at the different schools and colleges, though none, we believe at Oxford or Cambridge. The names of some of these papers are: The Bathonian, Durham University Journal, Epsomian, Excelsior, Mill Hill, Merchant Company's Schools' Magazine, Pelican, Queen's College Magazine, Reptonian, Rossalian, School Magazine, the Ladies' College Magazine, Cheltenham, and Our Magazine, published at the North London Collegiate School for Girls...
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