Word: vaughans
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...whole you will see that they are not directed against "classical education" in a broad and liberal point of view, but against the special system, with which he was familiar as an assistant master at Harrow from 1855 to (I think) 1871, chiefly under the mastership of Dr. Vaughan. That system, though much improved by Dr. Vaughan, still preserved and preserves the old traditions and arrangements of the school which made a very full and finished classical education the one great object, to which all other branches were made subordinate. As a natural result, Harrow has for long sent...
...Harrow and the other six favored and fashionable public schools. All of these, however, have their good points, and may well be proud of the large number of distinguished men that have been educated in them. Of the Harrowians I can shy, from personal knowledge, (as during Dr. Vaughan's time not a few of them came from the Fourth Form of Harrow to finish or supplement their education for various professions and the Indian Civil Service under me) that more gentlemanly young men I never had under my care. But certainly, while well trained in Greek and Latin verse...