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Colleges, Copyists, and the Schools That Refused the Standard
A foundation is a close before it is a school: hall, chapel, lodgings, library, kitchen, yard, and behind them a bursary drawing its rents from estates that may lie forty miles off, so that the close is paid for by ground out of sight of it. Over all sits the head, elected by the fellows and holding for life, or until he is made something better. Below him the bursar, who is the man who matters. Below him the fellows, who teach, litigate and wait for prebends; and below them the scholars, the servants, and the small permanent population of every close.
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