GRAVER SCHOOLBOYS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 2

GRAVER SCHOOLBOYS

"THE HARROW. SOOWL."

The old Harrovians who appeared at tho- School on the Bill rc'centlv te celebrate Founder's Day displayed" a 'heartiness and jollity, which struck the observer hy'reas'wv of its contrast to tho sober demeanour" of ■ the present-day Harrovians... .;- It was the.-doctor,.the lawyer, the soldier who Went about gay -.and :smiling, while the schoolboys showed a restraint and dignity that was almost oppressive. . "Tho Harrow, scowl," murmured a visitor as he watched "Bill" (tho afternoon ■ oal'l-over), and he alleged that as he mounted the hill he had counted eighty.-': seven boys, of ; whom only one' was "snail--' ing, while Seventy wero frowning. The-' joy -of living which one is accustomed to associate .with youth seems now to be the property of middle age. ."Wo are breeding," said tho' observer, "a race of. aravcr schoolboys.", . Slang, too, seems to b'j eschewed bythe modern .schoolboy—not; -of course., the purely local slang that "every school values among -the.' most" priceless 'tfatiir. tions, but the ordinary slang. of 'the day;; While parente-aiid- uncles were: describ-'. ing ca&s and.'.ices 3iid-..-buii:diii.gs;>..as;. "top.hole," and-stopping," -aiid "irol>. ten and "not half'bad,"'the' son or nephew was employing tho-'--dnoiees't idioms from the of English uiMlefllcd, VB-xoeHetaV-'fiiiS.'a boy. of thirteen of an io'roelofte that his father had recommended" as "quite : decent,"— "Daily. Mail" .....'■