Tirocinium Imperii: Public School Education in the Victorian Era, the Classical Curriculum, and the British Imperial Ethos

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Taraba and Alan Nathanson were exceptionally helpful in aiding my research efforts. Thanks go out to my friends and quasi-colleagues at Wesleyan for their commiseration and humor, specifically Lauchlin Cruickshanks for his help with both formatting and calming thesis-induced panic. I thank my dad, T. Fredric Jones, for forcing me to explain this topic coherently to him at various stages, I thank my mom, Michele Jones, for her extensive editorial work, and I thank my whole family for their love and emotional support. I am sincerely grateful to my Classics adviser Professor Michael Roberts at Wesleyan for enduring numerous drafts and requests for Latin quotations. Finally, I thank my History adviser, Professor Cecilia Miller at Wesleyan, without whom this thesis would, if it existed at all, have been a tad better than a disaster and quite a bit worse than an embarrassment. To Professor Miller, who invested days of what should have been her own manuscript time and taught me so much in less than an academic year, I will happily remain academically indebted.