Getting into Public School, or Scary Entrance Examinations from the 1880s!
byQualifications Eton There are seventy scholars always on the Foundation; and the average number of yearly vacancies is about twelve. Election to these takes…
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The Season: At Boys’ Public Schools
bySociety in our land has long ago taken the chief public schools into its social calendar as most important items for providing recreation, pleasure,…
Everyday Life in a Boys’ Public School: Winchester
byAmong other pithy observations made by the Duke of Wellington, the most famous is the apocryphal boast that “The battle of Waterloo was won…