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recent bookmarks from jmStiff Upper Lip by Alex Renton review – the damage boarding schools have done | Books | The Guardian2017-04-12T10:17:37+00:00
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jmStiff Upper Lip is studded with startling stuff. Discussing the importance of football, for instance, in 19th-century public schools, he drops in the line that “in Charterhouse’s version a small boy was the ball”. I blithely went over that one, thinking he meant “a small boy was [expected to crouch on] the ball” or similar; but it was no typo. In a cheery kickabout on Good Friday, 1924, the Earl of Sussex’s son died from his injuries – _having been [used as] an actual football_.
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