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Article: Michael McCrum. Thomas Arnold, Headmaster.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- December 22, 1990
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Michael McCrum. Thomas Arnold, Headmaster. New York: Oxford UP, 1989.
We lack a full-scale modern biography of Dr. Arnold, but here is a brief introduction to his life and the subsequent influence he exerted. It has a special claim to attention because it is the work of an ex-headmaster. The author was for 18 years at the head of English Public Schools, one of them being Eton, a school whose character and constitution was little influenced by the Rugby tradition that was elsewhere in the English speaking world so strong.
To assess Arnold "solely as a headmaster," the expressed intention of this book, seems reasonable in the circumstances, but of course ...
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