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Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
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The author assembles historical narrative, personal anecdotes, and descriptive sketches about life and traditions at Eton College, outlining its foundation and architectural development, old customs and ceremonies, disciplinary practices and student rivalries, the Montem procession, chapel furnishings, academic routine, and sporting life including rowing. Illustrated recollections and contributed prints accompany reminiscences from former pupils to evoke the atmosphere of past generations, contrasting older rites and daily habits with more recent changes. The account blends factual history, institutional detail, and nostalgic memory to portray the school’s customs, community rhythms, and evolving practices.

ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

FACE PAGE
The Great Court of Eton CollegeFrontispiece
The Oppidan’s Museum or Eton Court of Claims at the Christopher116
Ad Montem, 1838144
The Cloisters of Eton College158
The College Hall before Restoration164
The Chapel before Restoration184
A Colleger, 1816196
Eton College from the River328

IN BLACK AND WHITE

Eton in the Seventeenth Century16
Eton College from Crown Corner32
Headmaster’s Room, showing Swishing Block and Birches82
Jack Hall, Fisherman of Eton102
Herbert Stockhore, the “Montem Poet,” going to Salt Hill in 1823129
The Montem of 1823130
The Montem of 1841—The March round the School-Yard140
Old Oak Panelling formerly in Eton Chapel174
Carved and Decorated Organ Case formerly in Eton Chapel176
James Culliford, the last Chief Butler of College to wear the livery of Eton blue202
Old College Servants206
Sixth-Form Bench226
Say Father Thames, for thou hast seen
Full many a sprightly race,
Disporting on thy margent green.
The paths of pleasure trace.—Gray’s Ode
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