Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20
GREAT SCHOOLS
or Old England, Some Of Them
Used by Royalty.
wAEEmAN's WANDERlNGs.


ALWAYS baked 10 the sunshine Of royalty.
Literally and fgnratively the sun has
aiways ahone upon 10 from the direc-
ton Of Windsor. Literally aud hgura-
lively, TOO, the eyes Of the sovereign are
always upon II.
50 close Is Elton college to Windsor
Castle; so pronounced has always been
the favor Of British rulers to the school;
80 interviewer with British proves,
craftsmanship, science, art and litera-
ture have been the historic names cut
in the schoolboy days upon its antique
woodwork, until the place seems YER
liable memorable roll-call OF the past
and present great Of the nation; that I'm
perceptibility It's prestige, renown and
permanency have come 70 be as much
amuttor ofnational pride 10 every Eng
lishman MS tho integrity Of the British
empire itself.
II you come by rail from London TO
Eton you must OF necessity pass through
the royal borough OF Windsor, for at
Windsor is the terminus OF the little
branch line over which rolls the
stately coaches OF the Queen. You
win OF course visit Windsor Castle.
From its towers and terraces tho
most remarkable object In all the
landscape is Eton Collie %. The castle
ia short distance from the south
bank Of tho Thames, and the college IL
about tho same distance from the
northern bank. Embedded within It's
venerable trees it is quito as interest
ing an object, although 1t appears DIFF
ferontly to the Imagination, rs the
somber gray silhouette Of Windsor
ttaelf, were YOU viewing the latter from
the battlements Of Lumpton's Tower at
Elton.
Around Windsor castle huddlos a
compact though slovonly old town.
Crowding close 10 Elton college Is u
lesser though pleasantor collection Of
nnrrow-windowed shops snug and often
picturesque boarding or "dume1h houses
whore the youngsters Of Elton dwell,
decayed hostelrios and tiny homes Of
those who In time come TO subsist upon
the meager though permanent gulnings
Of an ancient and decorus college town.
The Thames here beautiful, pellucid
and almost languUrous stream swinds In
and out and on between, separating
BuclslnghAmshiro aud It's oldon college
town from Berkshire and It's worlds
famous royal demcnse.
The chief lhoroughiare Of Windsor
Winds from east ~ west around the
southern wall of tho castle, at its
southwestern angle just beyond tho
Henry VIII gateway merges into High
street, and this, abruptly descending
under the famous Caesars tower be-
comes Thames street. The latter.
Swallowed by tho castle walls on the
east and huddled shops on tho west,
leads TO a bridge across tho Thames.
When you have ldlod hero for a
time among tho crowds OF gay bOatmen
thronging the bridge aud river banks
above and below aud sot your faco to-
ward the college you are upon tho one
long struggling street which Elton pos
sesses. This, now and then entered by
pretty courts and lanes, extends no
more than half mile whom 10 breaks
Into two beautiful country roads, the
one winding TO the west 70 Bray where
dwelt the vicar OF chameleon tame. ana
the other 10 Slough whore HerSchell
lived, aud thence on 20 Stoke Poges
where sang aud lies buried the author
Of tho "Elegyp
just where these roads diyorge, bc-
meath noble clms whore ivy and creep
YRS almost cover every ancient wall
ore clustered tho chief buildings,
various uiiices and principal mnsters'
hrcly uf It's scholastic associations IL Is
IS pleasant and ro8tiul spot a. ono
can find ia England,
Along both Sides of tho highway,
which herb runs nOrtheustorly towards
Slough and back northwesterly townrtls
Windsor, close up 10 the street line arc
missed tho qunintcst OF strange old
structures. From time TO time most OF
them have been added 10 tho original
college buildings, OF some building do
voted to other purposes, has been in a
way transformed for school uses, until
the charming and curious SPECTACLE ~
presented Of a towns chief thorough.
iarei retaining many Of its old tmo
Town aspects, forming something like n
busy yet repOsotul and shaded way
through an idle planned and vanar-
iously disposed though always pletur-
esquo college rotreut.
The original college buildings are all
20 the east Of this highway. Opposit,
are u score or more which have boen
built Or acquired. II YOU should stand
Immediately IA front OF the former. bv
tho worn archway through which for
more than four aud half centuries
have passed In and out stately COlaqors
with flowing gowns and aippant Oppi-
dams without, as far as you could soa
towards Windsor and up the gontle
turnings OF the diverging Highways,
every ancient building has Its use Tor
Elton schools, Elton master or officer,
Elton printing Elton boolys, or some
Dther sort OF occupancy necessary 10
the conduct OF Eton college affairs.
Our own colleges and universities often
Tar excel these old world seats OF learn.
lng IN their hugo proportions and
lonely vastnoss and isolation. But most
y tho latter gain immeasurably In the
pleasant feeling Of homelikeness and
einsomeness, and that charm which
always comea from acommunity OF hnd
died antique structures, which ap,
sabdnes and mellows, and gently adds
sari can never do, its soitening gray
and greens.
The antiquity OF the school is yer,
great The pious Henry vi was ID
lu1hder. Some material token OF his
.hheeiion for the Holy Church must be
made. Evidently his idea was to omu
late The example Of William Of Wyko
nam who established the irst endowe,
eenool Of this class ut royal Winehes
Ter ana Now School at oxford to re
oeiNa iu graduates. So Hmhy mad,
his preparatory school Of lion and On,
secular hings College ia tho Univer
SHY ~ Cambridge, tn which scholar.
are elected from Elon. The sito VA,
anl9nnleoiy selected so that the insti