“FAGGING” DEFENDED BY BISHOP Tl)(! public school ‘‘fugging” system 'vv"ais l defended by the .Brsliop of Jtxeter (Lord 'William Cecil) at. a. disarm;imon!; demonstration at Exetei, England. “It was suggested, ’’ be. said, “that one, of the reasons for Eton’s great traditions iwa-s the ‘lagging system. Mu bis day a •/fag’ was not • allowed breakfast until he-had waited on JiiiS fag-master, boiled bis eggs, and made bis 1 lied. The boys at Eton learned that ev r eryone must serve in turn, and the greatest English tradition was service. The move prosperous one was the more one should render service, and the greater one’s duty to liuman‘itv.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11768, 15 October 1932, Page 11
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