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Title: School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the schoolis divided ; in football and cricket, for example,the Kings Scholars pit a team against one selectedfrom the whole of the Town Boys, who includeall the non-collegiate members of the school, whetherboarders or home-boarders. This eminence is welldeserved. To College belong the fullest oppor-tunities and main duty of cherishing the historictraditions and characteristics of the school. Forexample, the Westminster Play, the most famous ofher ceremonies, is exclusively the work of the fortyKings Scholars resident in College ; while in thedaily life of the school (to take no higher example)the bulk of the peculiar Westminster vocabulary deals with the affairs of the Kings Scholars. Inshort, life in College very clearly inspires a fidelityto the trust of tradition which a Town Boy, thoughgreatly admiring, perhaps cannot fully appreciate.Nevertheless the home-boarders and half-boarders,that is to say, the great majority of Town Boys,lose less than might be expected of the beneficial
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EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS 15 results of the boarding system. Very few of themgo home between morning and afternoon schools.In the house system, and in other ways, Westminsterpreserves, as nearly as may be, the usual constitu-tion of a school of boarders. The Town Boys aredivided, as will be seen, into four houses, two ofwhich contain boarders and half-boarders, and twoonly home-boarders. To Elizabeth is attributable the schools connec-tion with Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity,Cambridge. The Christ Church scholarships are inthemselves the higher prize, but those who are electedto Trinity exhibitions may hold minor or majorscholarships won in open competition as well. Elec-tion is made to three (or less) scholarships or exhibi-tions at each foundation annually. The Town Boys,since 1873, have stood on an equal footing in thisregard with the Kings Scholars, to whom the privi-lege of election was before confined. Benefactionsof later date than the original foundation have bothadd

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