UNIVERSITY AGE
CHARGE OF ENTICING BOYS FROM SCHOOL.
The fact that some English headmasters arc complaining that universities arc "enticing'’ boys from school at the age of 17 would have seemed strange enough to our forefathers, writes ‘'Lucio - ’ in the "Manchester Guardian." The age at which youths enter universities from school has gone up a good deal with the passing of lime. Al the beginning it was very low among "the thousands of boys." of whom Green wrote, "huddled in bare lodging houses of the mediaeval Oxford. Edmund Rich, destined to be
Archbishop of Canterbury and a saint, went to Oxford at the age of 12, and no doubt found plenty of boys of his
own age there. Much later John Milton was admitted pensioner of Christ’s College. Cambridge, in his sixteenth year, which would have been above rather than below the average of the times. Chaucer must have finished his university course early to have been a Royal page at 16 and a soldier
at 19. Oliver Cromwell married in his twenty-first year, having studied law at Lincoln's Inn after coming' down from Cambridge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 11
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