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id: 25797
author: Somervell, D. C. (David Churchill)
title: The School and the World
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words: 30891
sentence: 1175
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Given their chance, public school boys (not one or two, but great masses of average humanity) will rediscover for themselves the simple things which Christ and Plato taught; and once that is achieved a general advance all along the line toward the goal of a worthy human society may begin. For very many, public school education is a species of doing time, whereby a child of fourteen is taken and simply kept out of mischief (or, at any rate, kept away from home, where he would be a nuisance), until at eighteen he is become a man.


id: 29415
author: Avery, Harold
title: Soldiers of the Queen
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words: 64671
sentence: 3562
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Valentine certainly did his best to follow out his sister's instructions, and keep Master Jack out of hot water. he's what I call the right sort, is Master Jack.


id: 35637
author: Machen, Arthur
title: The Secret Glory
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words: 66472
sentence: 2643
flesch: 74
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summary:
  People have thought that the name is a sort of portmanteau word, a combination of Rugger and Soccer; but in reality the title was derived from the field where the game used to be played in old days by the townsfolk. Benedictus_ were rattled off to frisky Anglicans with great spirit; sometimes the organ tooted, sometimes it bleated gently, like a flock of sheep; now one might have sworn that the music of penny whistles stole on the ear, and again, as the organist coupled up the full organ, using suddenly all the battery of his stops, a gas explosion and a Salvation Army band seemed to strive against one another.


id: 51409
author: Waugh, Alec
title: Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters
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words: 74513
sentence: 4451
flesch: 78
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summary:
  In the face of such evidence it is dangerous to dogmatise on the gradual discovery of the sexual impulse by public school boys during adolescence. The majority of old public school boys who read it seemed to like it.


id: 33777
author: Hughes, Thomas
title: Tom Brown at Rugby
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words: 121287
sentence: 5243
flesch: 81
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summary:
  [22] #Præpostors#: the members of the sixth form, the highest class in the school. [80] #Marianas#: Mariana, a beautiful woman, one of the most lovable of Shakespeare's characters.


