SCHOOLBOYS' LANGUAGE
SHOCKING IF CONVENTIONAL. STATEMENT BY HEADMASTER. LONDON. May 2fi. " Public schoolboys admittedly use language worse than one wishes to hear," ■Rev. Cyril Alington, headmaster of Eton College, told the Parents' Association. " i'ou would be legitimately shocked to discover the way many talk. Their language has become worse since the war but it does not follow that their characters are affected. " Boys, who are most-conventional, use the words conventional at the moment, not meaning any harm. People mistakenly believe that boys are boys. They are their parents' sons and show most of their parents' vices. " Clear types among schoolboys are most rare and, therefore, public schools do not supply material for the novelist. The public school novel aims at an impossibility and is impossible from start to finish.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 9
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