The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-20

Church OF England mot necessarily In or
ders) over 80 years Of age, ten fellows, -
who are members of the governing body, a
vice provost, bursars, secretaries or clerks,
an auditor, head master, lower master,
and conducts or chaplains.
All ordinary discipline may be said TO
emanate from the houses where boys not
on the foundation reside, whose masters are
directly responsible to the head and lower
masters for the good conduct of those IN
charge; TO the captains" OF these houses"
who are selected from among the scholars
in the houses to assist in keeping order; and,
secondary, both from "fagmasters" over
their respective deputized 'Yags,n and
throughout the general supervision by sill
upper forms or divisions of the school over
all members OF the successive grades below
/ them. IL ls an odd system to US Americans,
but it is good one here, because its results
/ are good
! The seventy free or foundation scholars
| are called "collagers$ Formerly they
wore the black cloth gown to distinguish
! them, but this badge OF poverty was some
time since removed. The foundation schol-
arships are open to all bows, British SUB
| jects, between the ages of 12 and IA, and
are only tenable to the completion OF the
| 18th year. These collageTs are educated
| end maintained during school term or time
| out OF the funds of the college. At the be-
| ginning Of the century the collagers' routine
/ anu IaT6 we're lag from buNluDlcs lucy
| dined most meagerly at II O'Clock every
| day and supped at O'Clock on whole
| school days and at 5 O'Clock on other
days. They assembled in the hall at 7
| O'Clock every night and sat there reading
for an hour. under the care OF their captain,
| At O'Clock they proceeded TO the lower
| school, where they recited the prayers,
| which used, 1t the still earlier times, to be
said in the long chamber. They were then
| locked up for the night. On Sunday morn
| ing they went to the upper school TO sigh
| t1e Psalm c., and TO Join In prayers read by
| the fifth form prfepostor. Colagers and
| oppidans alike went to church at 10 o'clock
on Sundays. and they all had to sit in the
| upper shool between and o'clock, while
| a member OF the fifth form read aloud sew
eral pages Of that exciting essay the "Whole
| Duty Of Man"
The dinner consisted invariably of NUT
ton, potatoes, bread and beer, with the adj
| dition of pudding on Sundays, AS
matter Of fact almost every collager hired
| room in the town. in which to get his
breakfast and tea, which the college did not
furnish, and in which to prepare his
lessons, which rendered his expenses nearly
| equal 10 those not on the foundation, and
| an old Etonian vehemently states that boys
unable to incur these unjust expenses under
went 'privations that might have broken
| down a cabin boy, and would be thought
I
lode on a Nearer Prospect of Eton." after
| Gray, written in 1898 was virile with satire
upon this order Of things, and fastened
reformation. The quality Of the beer was
| thus alluded to:
| Pint after pint you drink in vain,
Still sober you may drink again,
| You cant get drunk Ia Han
Everything is now different. Good food
Is supplied for the hall. Breakfast and tea
| akoI Nr{H
lessen the impositions OF tagging. An as
slstant master and a matron have domestic
Superintendence Long chambers Of old,
| famous for its fifty-two beds, filth and
| frolics, has been practically abolished and a
| new building with separate rooms provided
chiefly by subscriptions from old Etonians.
All badges OF Inferiority have been done
way with. To be INDECENT and paupsr is
no longer necessary TO eligibility, and some
of the best families of England are glad to
have their sons become Etop foundationers.
The "oppidaus" are all Elton boys. not
free scholars, or "collagers" There Ia no
bar to any boy entering Elton as soon as he
can read, and some have been received as
young as years. The Elton system
provides that from the moment he enters
until he leaves for good he shall be under
the immediate control, so far as his intel
lectual guidance Is concerned, of a tutor
who stands to him, while at Eton In the
entire relation of parent or guar
dian. There is now, perhaps, an av-
800 are non-residents. All OF these
live in boarding houses, formerly conducted
| by women or DANES and while now all
| but one are under the supervision OF board
| ing masters, who each care for from thirty
| to dfty youths, they are still known as
danes houses" These boarding masters
| are assistant masters of and teachers In the
college. So far as college life and discipline
are concerned all OF these honses are as
strictly subject to college law and regula-
ton as though they were set down and Sc
curely locked within either of the two col
lege quadrangles,
The principal and original buildings form
two huge quadrangles. The first, entered
from the highway through a much battered
archway, is adorned by central statue of
the royal founder in bronze The SQUARE
called the school yard" Is inclosed by the
chapel, schools, dormitories. masters cham
bers. clock tower and election chamber ~
where the highest gifts OF the college, the
scholarships at Kings College, Cambridge
are annually bestowed.
The lesser quadrangle, nearest the
Thames, which Elton College properly faces,
comprises the cloisters, in which are the
residences Of the provost and fellows, and
the library, which is reached by flight Of
steps to the left of the entrance of the olois-
|
college gardens, and still beyond these.
through a small postern gate luxuriantIy
mantled with ivy and "Weston's
yard" you come up on the
"pIaying field" where on holiday
evenings, In what is called Poets walk, -
the crioketers are won't to take their tea.
These ''playing fields" dearest Of all things
at Elton to all Etonians past and present,
comprise an extensive tract Of ground, in
terBected by pretty stream, and crossed
by a small bridge They are crowded with
rich verdure, and shaded by venerable
elms the Thames calmly ripping along
their banks and Windsor castle In the dis
tance.
Here, in the silent memorial to those
who have rendered the old school famous
by their own subsequent greatness; in the
upper school adorned with its marble busts
of Etonian worthless who became England's
greatest statesmen, d1vines, philosophers
and poets and in the host of noted names
carved everywhere upon the ancient wood
work by erst boyish hands; one finds the
reaf answer 30 all impulse of criticism
upon what seems at first to an
American a dead age system Of educa-
ton of the British youth to-day.
Two fogging blocks have been In past
times triumphantly borne away, but an
other stands in its place 1t was not SO long