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ALTHOUGH Eton still ranks as a purely classical school, and has not established a modern side as her rival Harrow has done, yet the study of science is pursued within her walls to an extent which—in some respects at least—is unequalled at any other school. The numbers of the school vary somewhat on each side of 900 boys, about 120 of whom, constituting the Fourth Form, do no science. About seventy boys more from the Fifth Form make up the Army Class, and do no Science unless they take in Physical Geography and Geology for their final examination. But in the Remove and in the greater part of the Fifth Form, which constitutes the chief mass of the school, two lessons a week in science enter into the regular work of each division.
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Science At Eton . Nature 24, 287–290 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024287a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/024287a0