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Show LONG HOURS OF SCHOOLING. Boys Worked Hard In Old English Institutions In-stitutions of Learning, Schoolings In Old Kngland took to Latin and (Ireek nt an early age. At St. SaUor's crammnr school, South-wark, South-wark, In Mil, n pupil of suten ears and three months was admitted as an ordinary occurrence, who signed his form or admission, stating himself to be "roodlns mid learning In the Accidence, Acci-dence, and entering Into Propria quui Marlbus, etc i and also Tnlly his second sec-ond epistle. amuiiK those gathered by Stenilus, and Corderlus' dialogues, etc." The houifi uf study were long, too. An old tccoid san that from March till September "tho child Is tu come nt hK lu the morning and bo at school till II. Aguln nt ono and tnrry till six, the lost of tho year he Is to begin In tho morning nt seven nnd leave at flvo lu tho afternoon. Tho malster shall not give leavo to play but once a week." Tho malster was to bo skilled In Latin, and able to teach grammar, oratory, poetry and (Sleek, as also tho principles of Ho-blew. Ho-blew. He Is to be or n wise, soclnblo nnd IovIiik disposition, not hasty or fiuious nor of III example; he shall dlhceiu the niitmn of oveiy child II such nun bo gotten." |