item: #1 of 5 id: 25797 author: Somervell, D. C. (David Churchill) title: The School and the World date: None words: 30891 flesch: 63 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. keywords: boys; case; class; course; education; fact; form; good; house; life; man; masters; men; mind; opinion; parents; place; politics; present; public; school; subject; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 25797.txt plain text: 25797.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 29415 author: Avery, Harold title: Soldiers of the Queen date: None words: 64671 flesch: 84 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. keywords: aunt; barbara; boy; boys; brenlands; cousin; crouch; day; face; fellow; fenleigh; fire; fosberton; good; half; head; helen; home; jack; joe; know; left; little; look; mab; man; melchester; mind; moment; morning; place; queen; raymond; right; room; rosher; round; school; sir; society; soldier; table; tea; tell; thing; thought; time; valentine; want; way; work cache: 29415.txt plain text: 29415.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 33777 author: Hughes, Thomas title: Tom Brown at Rugby date: None words: 121287 flesch: 81 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. keywords: arthur; ball; bed; benjy; big; boys; brooke; chapter; close; country; day; doctor; door; east; end; england; english; face; fellow; fifth; fire; flashman; foot; form; friend; game; goal; good; great; half; hall; hand; head; heart; high; hold; home; hour; house; left; lesson; life; little; look; man; martin; master; master tom; match; men; mind; minute; moment; morning; mother; new; place; play; poor; rest; right; room; round; rugby; run; school; set; sir; sixth; sort; squire; stand; study; table; talk; tell; things; thought; time; tom; tom brown; village; way; white; work; world; year; young cache: 33777.txt plain text: 33777.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 35637 author: Machen, Arthur title: The Secret Glory date: None words: 66472 flesch: 74 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. keywords: ambrose; believe; black; body; book; boys; church; country; course; cup; dark; day; days; door; english; eyes; face; father; golden; good; green; half; head; heart; holy; horbury; house; land; left; life; light; look; lupton; man; manner; master; men; meyrick; mind; moment; mountain; nelly; new; people; place; public; question; room; school; secret; set; shining; sky; song; system; things; thought; time; water; way; white; wood; work; world; years; young cache: 35637.txt plain text: 35637.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 51409 author: Waugh, Alec title: Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters date: None words: 74513 flesch: 78 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. keywords: age; book; boy; boys; class; course; cribbing; cricket; day; day boy; end; father; form; good; great; hand; head; head boy; head master; house; house master; jones; man; master; men; moral; nature; old; parents; place; position; prefect; preparatory; public; room; school; school boy; school house; school life; school system; second; soc; study; system; term; things; time; way; work; world; years cache: 51409.txt plain text: 51409.txt