Wykehamists

By the 1880s, it was even difficult for the sons of Old Wykehamists or Old Carthusians to obtain acceptance, as for example at Eton, the examination for Election tested candidates on Latin Composition (Prose and Verse); Translation from Latin and Greek; Mathematics (including Arithmetic, Algebra, and Euclid), and “General Papers,” not limited to Latin and Greek Grammar and Parsing.

Everyday Life in a Boys’ Public School: Winchester | Edwardian Promenade 2010

The camel corps are old Etonians, Wykehamists or Carthusians to the public, and when a camel dies in the desert it would be infra dig to think of eating it to survive themselves.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

What would then happen is not that Wykehamists, Harrovians and Paulines would be queuing up to get into the Herbert Morrison Academy in Tower Hamlets, but rather they would be educated abroad - in some cases - or more likely there would be a rush of interest in schools in the wealthier areas of the home counties and beyond as people relocated.

Ironic Ducks Newmania 2007

He doubtless thought far more of the benefit which he could render to the youthful Wykehamists, than of either the originality or smoothness of his own verses.

Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

The Founder of New College met the difficulty by the foundation of Winchester College, at which all Wykehamists (except the earliest members of New College) were to be thoroughly grounded in

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

The old Wykehamists have their motto; it is a great motto: "Manners maketh the man".

An Address by Mr. A.J. Adams 1933

The Wykehamists of his day were excellent scholars.

Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

Now and again the fin quivered, but for the most part my gentleman lay quiet as a stone, head to stream, and waited for relief from these noisy Wykehamists.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that others than Wykehamists were admitted as scholars.

The Charm of Oxford 1892

The fact that a mere boy was elected to a position which provided for him for life was not calculated to stimulate subsequent intellectual activity, and Wykehamists themselves have been among the first to say that the intellectual distinction of the great bishop's beneficiaries has by no means corresponded to the magnificence of the foundation or the noble intentions of the Founder.

The Charm of Oxford 1892