Tom Brown's School Days
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217139120
Paperback|9780217139120
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A GLANCE AT ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The American schoolboy who reads Tom Brown becomes aware at once of a state of things which he does not know at home. All the more if he be a public-school boy does the English public school seem strange to him. He is liable to be misled by the name itself; for in England a public school is an endowed school, and not as in America one open to all under state or town or city provision. A boy who attends one of our large private secondary schools finds himself most in touch with the life of the Rugby boys, but the differences even in such cases are considerable. No other English school, probably, is so well known in America as Rugby. Dr. Arnold's greatness and Tom Brown's popularity have insured to it an immortality of fame. Yet it is but one of many noted English schools, and, save for its great master, is less interesting historically than several of the others. The oldest of the nine ancient schools l is Winchester College, founded by William of Wykeham, a famous architect, statesman, and bishop of the fourteenth century. Though essentially a man of the Middle Ages, he was a far-sighted one, and hisxvi ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. i These are, in the order of their founding, Winchester, Eton, St. Paul's, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Merchant Taylors', Rugby, Harrow, and Charter-House. school, founded a hundred years before Columbus discovered America, embodied the principles which dominate the education of English boys to-day. Winchester school was designed primarily to fit boys to enter New College, which Wykeham had established at Oxford. Both institutions have always maintained the highest rank, and the original connection has not been lost. Five or six scholarships at New College are given each year to the best students of W...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217139120 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217139124 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $20.96 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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