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'Varsities will murder the language, debase the currency of manners, mumble unchecked of "libery," and "Febuery," and "seckertery," and in many other barbarous ways betray the vulgarising influence of culture.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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Six or Shooting Eight, or a few men who had won scholarships at the 'Varsities.
The White Feather 1928
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'Varsities and the hospitals, there would be a system of marks and reports just as at schools.
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Naturally he'd rather lost touch with life at home and found it difficult to fit himself in; especially with a lot of boys straight from the 'Varsities or school.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907
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Old Jolyon's feeling towards our public schools and 'Varsities never wavered, and he retained touchingly his attitude of admiration and mistrust towards a system appropriate to the highest in the land, of which he had not himself been privileged to partake ....
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Old Jolyon's feeling towards our public schools and 'Varsities never wavered, and he retained touchingly his attitude of admiration and mistrust towards a system appropriate to the highest in the land, of which he had not himself been privileged to partake ....
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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Old Jolyon's feeling towards our public schools and 'Varsities never wavered, and he retained touchingly his attitude of admiration and mistrust towards a system appropriate to the highest in the land, of which he had not himself been privileged to partake ....
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property John Galsworthy 1900
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"I will leave Mr. Philip Bawdrey himself to tell you that," said Narkom, as the door opened to admit a young man of about eight-and-twenty, clothed in tennis flannels, and looking very much perturbed, a handsome, fair-haired, fair-moustached young fellow, with frank, boyish eyes and that unmistakable something which stamps the products of the 'Varsities.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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Then, if Hughie is clever and gets a scholarship, he can go to one of the 'Varsities, and afterward he must study for the Bar.
A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884
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Varsities need to give importance to disaster management: expert
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