"FLOREAT ETONA."
"Wellington said that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. I think again of a young officer, not out of his 'teens, who only left school-six months, who died leading his men in; a gallant ehargo with tho old motto of his school on 'his lips, 'Floreat Etona.' Now, 'what is this all going to do to building up and continuing that spirit? Looking back on my old school, there were two centres, tho school chapel and the school''hall, the school chapel with all its sacred association and the school hall.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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95"FLOREAT ETONA." Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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