Identifier : schoolmonthlyrec05londuoft ( find matches )
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
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e might hear from presentSalopians ; for even those who sneer most loudlyat the constant iteration of the familiar names—Sir Philip Sidney, Charles Darwin, and the rest—unknowingly come to inherit some part of the mantleof these great Salopians. Bnt autiquity has another,more easily definable, effect on Shrewsbury. Every school, except the very new, has a body ofstrange local customs, traditions, and slang phrases.The body varies in its volume. Sometimes, aswith the Wykehamists, it grows to such a staturethat members of less favoured schools are inclinedto regard it as ridiculous ; but it always has itseducative value both as an imparter of patriotismand as a healthy exercise for conceited new boys,arriving with a firm belief that they know every-thing. Shrewsbury observes a mean : but there isa certain number of phrases and institutions, somepeculiar to the school, which it may be worth whileto meet in the progress of a winter day. It is at seven oclock that Shrewsbury wakes from
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EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS *97 the slumber which is the same in every school ;and first bell is the wakening agent. It isprobable, however, that the Salopian, whom weare watching, may not leave his bed till thirdbell, half an hour later! Then, or soon after, hewill leap from bed (unless he has a long lie orlonger), and not worrying about dressing-gownor other covering, will dash, hugging his towel, alongthe chilly corridor. Shrewsbury has swills,not baths : and swills are—well, swills ! They aremore like shower-baths than any other form of bath :but the icy water spurts with appahing force from along narrow slit above the bathers head. Swillsare shivery, at first : but the man does not know themeaning of life who has never swilled after a hardgame of football! Still, we must not linger, or ourSalopian will be late for chapel. As it is, he has torun—he calls it towing —and has no time toleave his books in the school buildings ; he throwsthem in a hedge, as he tows by, and f

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