. School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress . a new ; and years spent in the quietand peace of such places leave a permanent mark andsuggest a permanent ideal, especially valuable in thechanges and confusions of modern life, and, indeed,hardly elsewhere to be obtained. Public schools are naturally conservative, andWinchester, while it has changed and adapted itselfto the needs of the present, has not recklessly thrownaway anything historic that was worth indeed there are. Past generations workedand slept in overcrowded chambers on theground floor : the day of
. School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress . a new ; and years spent in the quietand peace of such places leave a permanent mark andsuggest a permanent ideal, especially valuable in thechanges and confusions of modern life, and, indeed,hardly elsewhere to be obtained. Public schools are naturally conservative, andWinchester, while it has changed and adapted itselfto the needs of the present, has not recklessly thrownaway anything historic that was worth indeed there are. Past generations workedand slept in overcrowded chambers on theground floor : the day of these primitive andunsanitary conditions is long past, and even electriclight has found its way into the oldest parts ofCollege. The last ten years have seen the buildingof elaborate science laboratories, a museum, amusic-school and concert-room, surpassed by noschool in England. Yet on all sides, while Win-chester stands visibly in the twentieth century, it isapparent that her life runs back to the air of antiquity extends even to the language. a. xo az< w o H ou w KHI a=oz EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS 133 spoken, the dress-worn, and the football playedthere. A fifteenth-century brass shows a Winchesterscholar in the long gown with full sleeves, providedfor in the Founders statutes. In Chamber Court,the quadrangle of College, the visitor of to-day maysee scholars wearing a gown not much changedin appearance from that gown of the fourteenthcentury. In Meads and New Field he may seefrom October to December played between longlines of netting, and with goals 30 yards wideand of unlimited height, a football as old, and asdifferent from modern forms of football, as it is, inthe opinion of most who have played it, unrivalledby them. When strange words are used in con-versation he will recognise that he is listening toWinchester notions ; and the philologist maybe curious to trace, in words like ferk to expel, thoke to lie idle, remedy a half-holiday,and many ot
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