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Passing [the Swimming Test] by Sydney P. Hall. 1870. Wood-engraving, 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. "The Monarch with its ten oars swept by, and as they passed in front of the island, the whole crew stood up with oars raised in the air, and waved their straw hats as they cheered both themselves and the spectatotrs, and all those other nameless people and incidents which may have contributed to the hilarity of the occasion." — Recollections of Eton, pp. 80-81.
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Bibliography
An Etonian [Charles Frederick, d. 1892]. Recollections of Eton. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.
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