THE SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 10 August 1932, Page 13

THE SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND.

B FAMOUS OLD BOYS.

(By T.C.L.) _ worm vour way through the the Mansion House up Holborn Viaduct, along iot a while and then turn fellfvonr right you are in the *£^ ? EMtoa road. From there i*?sto to the entrance to Camden **? i dreary neighbourhood, northJwMlwb is Willesden, where mean •"iTiLin to open into more preten- &££*&*™- Still going nortb, i improve m character ' *&2, and there are spaces not yet *Kebrieks and mortar. The road gr. little, leaving the Wembley iP&JU&i and the young town that *ESiip since the 1924 exhibition **?*& rises fairly steeply for * *Ltaw*. and 12 miles from the • finds himself in what f *iL tte country town of Harrow- [ but i» now to all intents a London suburb, and a .£gnSmrb at that. There are S*SL of reaching Harrow, and it fta&e or railway trams are used, JS*r *" to be careful that he y,!l7h, r ight route. There are South fSS North Harrow, Harrow-on-tho-Slteww-weald ("the fields of now a thickly populated SB Bat it i» "The Hill" that is Stand most famous and most *£*„«, Here among beautiful £ST2Jd woods that run from the SK" point like so many apokeshaves JggA aad. Harrow School. , -;. • The Church. ftttharen is a fine old building, some Jmbtbg from the 14th century. =fc-ftfcdin«hyard is a flat tombstone : fjjiA when a schoolboy at used to betake himself when gSjjjeafcd his lameness and his poor rSrLrthim "stumping up the hill SSjftte without a rudder," as his S«wt?r' B wife put it, to figh't out bEvV**** alone in the churchyard. I SSj tie ehureh are many fine I i f§fK>> one of them in honour of 'Mfa-iifim. veoman, of the neighbourjjpji* ft? Preston,'' founder of Har- j jSSto*" Though Lyon obtained from | SlfcfiisVbeth. in 2571 a charter for ISd-at which "the poor children of be taught," it was not j SjHMg'L had been King of Engyears that the 'first k|a%H-attended. The school main*&lff jd exclusively "charitable" jgultristic* all through the troublous MNi'4*7*f Dat the Restoration jgj^jfcat.admission of "foreign" or tfotftpb, and from that date the jgjnr af the school has been un«riii»l buildings to-day are moßtly tlpijfc? There is one block, "the faj&Rira Boom," that was built in Ssjf jwmes of old boys who afterfeajame famous. Like other EngSflafertftnt schools, the control of Wfrrh'n*J carefully arranged. The Mbjittcx is appointed by the Lord iaotSir, and the Board of Governors 4>A partly by the universities of tWaVaad Cambridge, where infeHlf "old twys" of the school is (' Mf||d partly by the senior assistf Mm. ■&. filMefcooi is no charity institution*4s& ferthej no boys are mtUd' except of'a certain social saamog and fte tW«fe*nv tremendous » those Zealand aaadards for - boarders "at aecondarv *k©ols. ;■•' __ SV.*?£.-' ■"■ Buildings Brick.. The bnildings aVtifeurfclta mostly a bride Scattered- over,a -wide area. u both sides of. the street, they,; are Hgrjr- all miff-Victorian; aad .eifieießcy, air*, than architectural beanty,-appears guided, the. designers.-' The dapst is a beautiful building; and there ttilaeJlif School Hall which, is given frdigauled name of "Speech Boom." %jta walls hang portraits of famous <B twys, and the list is' one of which jg&asbool might be proud. Their as■jjjhffig "with • the sehool has made its WPv* tart i 4 *' the si ? ht ° f thesr •gpyiaeked schoolboy fashion, in the Sf**" 3 yS» ia the old fourth•p Muaiag > . that -qale"ken& interest &• '*'*? B J'o^l , j.effort, and lookW* J* TOteM memory not so much f|S*j£ w t's stormy career as of the S*X ft ?*'*" lwme made ' miserable: fjlfsttg's profligacy and a mother's' §•■» JEefe to a title, full of pride of * cramped by penury, the result MR* extravagance it any Mis manhood was so 'stormy aid ijgß* * Blend of the sordid and Harrow forgets the weakits sou who has an i fflßljjy a * nl o » British literature freedom's sake. . g^jflHpffaltVß^Bchoolboys. public sehools*—called 1 vSrSsff^ hfeause they are the institutions in SSBsV'*** -typical of the nation, t^gf?»e' L coßßervative to the baekof the straw >k. In winter as their extraordinary -tilted on one side, )w of depth, of no lead covering, even airing not a little •balance. It is as usually free from f hats at Harrow ble. These straw ie past, add thereage that the Harlore dream of reuld the pupils of Horsham (the blue )f giving up. their mfortable garb of yellow stockings teir predecessors at e, is ''strong on tricket match with action. In football a kind of mixture r. It is played by lough, occasionally ball goes through re a'"base." The adled, but may be when the catcher it and begin drib- ; keep behind the »e game is in keep--1 in dribbling. The tught on" outside that is an added w was famous for the use of the bow ons were regularly ites were regarded t efficient bowmen sport grounds, or suous part of the id are amongst the picturesque of the 'lyings themselves, ft l Just growed" <mt the town, but would not have it i and Bugby have "»g around their mtent to be differ-