Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Societies, Geography, Schools, Colleges, Patronage, Education

    Notes that the Royal Geographical Society is awarding medals to boys 'of various schools' who have excelled in examinations on physical and political geography. Notes that boys from Liverpool College did just as well as those from Eton College and wonders whether 'in all useful knowledge and science such as schools can teach, Eton men are beaten men'.