Identifier: oursundaybookofr00arch (find matches)
Title: Our Sunday book of reading and pictures
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Archer, Thomas, 1830-1893
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: London : Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Upper School. the other day giving an admirable coloured illustration of the operation offlogging as practised by Dr. Keate at Eton half a century ago. The littledoctor has his robes well gathered about him, and, rod uplifted, is administeringsound castigation to a victim kneeling at the flogging - block. A KingsScholar does duty as assistant executioner in arranging nice points of etiquetteincident to the proceedings, and written at the foot of the picture, and set toappropriate and simple music, is the refrain— Birch and green holly,Birch and green holly,If thou best beaten, boy,Thank thine own folly, %yl
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W^\ ^^1-W^v« 85 SMILING. 87 With the advent of Dr. Hawtrey as headmaster, things changed very muchfor the better at Eton College, as well in matters of school discipline as ofscholarship. Before his time the classical work was limited to Homer, Horace,and Virgil, the classes were unwieldy, and instruction in modern languages andother essential educational requirements were comparatively unknown. Thefoundation, in 1829, of the Newcastle Scholarship—still, we believe, the blueribbon of Eton—inaugurated a better system of education at the school. TheCollegers began to receive more individual attention in their studies, and arenow looked upon as the elite of the school. Indeed, they can hold their ownwith the picked scholars of the best of our great schools, which was hardly thecase a few years ago. The affiliation of Kings College, Cambridge, is not now,it may be remarked, reckoned as the chief inducement to election to thefoundation of Eton College, the Collegers preferring to ente

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