School life at Harrow on the hill; A famous British Public School The Queen will visit; Among a series of private visits Her Majesty will be making during the Spring and Summer to public schools, the visit to Harrow will rank as one of the most interesting, for it was on The Hill that Winston Churchill was educated, as well as many other of Britain's most illustrious and talented sons. Names such as Byron and Sheridan are seen carved of the old Fourth Form Room. Sir Robert Peel, Earl Baldwin, have their busts at Harrow. King Faisal of Irak went to Harrow and so did Pandit Nekru. Harrow is known to the world for the straw hats worn by its pupils, and for the be yasselled round hats worn with sports. As Eton has its wall Game, Harrow (Eton's great rival) has its own bra and Rugby Football played wit ha Dutch cheese shaped ball. Harrow's history is long and varied going back to Pre Elizabeth times but it was the great John Lyon who obtained the Royal Charter for the School which he had endowed even before 1591. From then on words the Lyon School, run according to his strict statutes, grew and grew. From 1615 until 1746 it ranked as a Framer, although the education remained primarily classical. Boys learned together in a great old school room, dimly lit by candles they provided themselves. Eventually, after the advent of Dr. Arnold and the later public School methods he introduced, Harrow ranked as one of Britain's great independent public schools, and has remained one ever since. It gained its freedom from the restrictions of the Lyon Statutes after the Public Schools Act had been passed in 1868, although in the case of Harrow final freedom for modernization only came in 1874.
Harrow School today: A glass studying biology in a well equipped laboratory. Gone art the days when boys had to provide their own candles with which to study their Latin and Greek verses.
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