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...EDUCATION:--At Mr. Wackford Squeer's Academy, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification and every other branch of classical literature. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations and diet unparalleled...
True, neither Harvard or Yale is a Mr. Squeer's; but there are few who have not heard old graduates telling stories of Commons and old Grays Hall that rival "the unparalleled diet" and "warm rooms" of Dickens' famous institution...
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