The Making of Wellington College

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Excerpt from The Making of Wellington College: Being an Account of the First Sixteen Years of Its ExistenceBenson was a masterful Master, and that's what we Wellington boys of the early days required and did not resent. He was not one of those who creep about dormitories in carpet slippers, or get hold of little boys and in a P. J. (pi jaw) work upon religious feelings till they confess that Smith Major said d Benson would have died sooner than do that. We boys at Wellington in the sixties were diamonds no doubt, but (begging pardon for saying so) diamonds in the rough. I had come from an establishment where young noblemen with - obviously - a sprinkling of the less noble, used to be crammed for Eton.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.