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ETRURIA 



Eton. 



The town viewed from Windsor. In the centre is seen the college 

 chapel, built by Henry VI 



masters, one or more bursars, and 

 two chaplains or conducts. The 

 number of collegers (or Tugs) is 70. 

 In 1920, in addition to the college 



stored in 1848-60. The old build- 

 ings, of dark red brick, with stone 

 dressings and clustered chimney 

 shafts, form three sides of a quad- 

 rangle which is 

 completed by the 

 chapel. The li- 

 brary was built in 

 1729, and new 

 buildings in 1844 

 -4 6 and 1885- 

 87. In athletics 

 the wall game is 



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proper, there were 27 houses and 

 over 1,100 king's scholars and oppi- 

 dans or house residents. There are, 

 in all, 65 masters. Notable scholars 

 have included Bolingbroke, Boyle, 

 Canning, Chatham, Fox, Glad- 

 stone, Gray, Hallam, Kinglake, 

 Milman, Peel, Person, Pusey, Shel- 

 ley, Swinburne, and Wellington, 

 whose remark that Waterloo was 

 won on the playing-fields of Eton 

 has been explained as a reference to 

 the fights that took place there. 



In the Great War about 5,000 

 Etonians served and over 1,100 

 were killed. The restoration of the 

 vestry chapel, a register in a Golden 

 Book of the names of all who 

 served, and a statue in the playing- 

 fields constitute the proposed war 

 memorial. In addition Etonians 

 undertook to help to rebuild the 

 French village of Eton, destroyed 

 in the early days of the war. 



Of the buildings, the hall, 1448, 

 restored 1858, is the only part built 

 according to the founder's final 

 plan. The Gothic chapel, 1442-80, 

 originally parochial as well as col- 

 legiate, resembles that of King's 

 College, Cambridge, and was re- 



a special feature, 

 and the rowing 

 boys are known as 

 " wet bobs," the 

 cricketers as " dry 

 bobs." The school 

 gives its name to 

 the familiar short 

 j ac k e t worn by 

 boys. 



Bibliography. 

 History of Eton 

 College, H. C. Max 

 well Lyte, 4th ed. 

 1911; Annals of 

 Eton, W. Sterry, 

 1898; An Eton 

 Bibliography, L. V. 

 Harcourt, new ed. 

 1902; Fasti Eton- 

 enses, A. C. Benson, 





1899 ; Hist, of Eton College, L. Gust, 

 1899 ; Eton, A. Clutton -Brock, 1900; 

 Memories of Eton Sixty Years Ago, 

 A. C. Ainger, 1917. 



Etourdi, L' ; OR LES CONTRE- 

 TEMPS (The Thoughtless,or TheMis- 

 haps). Five-act comedy by Moliere, 

 adapted from Italian sources. The 

 scene is laid in Messina. The title 

 refers to the character Lelie, who 

 is often doing the wrong thing 

 from right motives. His rascally 

 servant Mascarille, a character 

 played by Moliere, is the life and 

 soul of the play, which was first 

 produced at Lyons, 1653. 



Etretat. Town and watering- 

 place of Normandy, France, in the 

 dept. of Seine Inferieure. Facing 

 the English Channel, 16 m. N.N.E. 

 of Havre, it became a popular 

 holiday resort in the latter part of 

 the 19th century. The chief build- 

 ing is the Romanesque church of 

 Notre Dame, dating in part from 

 the llth century. There are public 

 gardens, a casino, and ample bath- 

 ing facilities. Pop. 1,973. 



Etrich Taube. Type of aero- 

 plane (q.v. ) developed by Igo Etrich 

 in Austria. It was one of the early 

 types with a large degree of in- 

 herent stability, due chiefly to the 

 form of its wing. Each wing was 

 swept backward and upwards to- 

 wards the outer extremity like a 

 bird's wing. The type was copied 

 by many German 

 and Austrian con- 

 structors, and 

 from the wing form 

 became known as 

 Taube or dove. 



Etruria (Gr. 

 Tyrrhenia). An- 

 cient district of 

 Italy nearly corre- 

 sponding to the 

 modern Tuscany. 

 To what race 

 i t s inhabitants, 

 variously called 



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Eton College. 1. The School Yard and Lupton's Tower, 



built in the 18th century. 2. The Upper School, built 



1690-91. 3. The Hall, one of the original buildings of 



Henry VI, restored in 1858 



