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24. Causes of desertion from the Army.
Discuss the following statement :
Education is the spread of Discontent."
Different kinds of Friendship.

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How far are sham fights and manœuvres a test of Military or Naval strength?

"Si vis pacem, para bellum" (also set November 1895). Discuss the life and work of any great historian.

What does a country gain or lose by being thickly populated?

Obedience as a training for command.

Reasons for the gradual disappearance, in modern times, of Small States.

"Mens sana in corpore sano."

"The art of gaining power and that of using it well are too often found in different persons."

A week at Wimbledon Camp.

Is personal gallantry as important in modern as in ancient warfare?

37. The increasing humaneness of the laws of war.
Turkey, past and present.

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Goldsmith, Macaulay and De Quincy as models of a literary style.

Habit, a Second Nature.

Military Music.

Don Quixote.

Esprit de Corps.

The causes and effects of the rapid extinction of
Big Game.

What do you understand by the word Civilisation?
The Relations between Officers and Private Soldiers.
English and American Humour.

"He that always blames or always praises his country, is no patriot."

'Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind."

52. The position of an officer in the French, German and English Armies respectively.

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The advantages of an accurate eye.

The future of Africa.

England's interests in the Mediterranean.

What in your opinion constitutes a good Tale of
Adventure?

The Ideal Soldier.

The Alps.

School Magazines: their merits and defects.

The requirements of England for National Defence.
Oxford versus Cambridge.

The use and abuse of Strikes.

Tennyson and Browning as Dramatists.

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Faces in a crowd.

The qualities which are most necessary in the Head
Boy of a Public School.

"Duty for duty's sake." Unfold the meaning of this
maxim, illustrating it by the lives of eminent Englishmen.
The pleasures of school-life are not likely to recur in
later years.

Explorers, ancient and modern.

The pleasures and drawbacks of foreign service. England and the United States, their resemblances and differences.

The discipline of the Public School compared with the discipline of the Army.

"Men show their character by the things they laugh at." The strategy and tactics of the two Commanders at the battle of Waterloo.

77. The special difficulties of the English government of

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India.

The Soldier in Shakspeare.

Picture India deprived of English Rule.

The parts played in education by study and games respectively.

Write a letter to a friend, who believes that certain people are lucky and others unlucky, arguing against his view. Write also his reply.

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At what age would you choose to travel, and why?
The relative advantages of Health, Wealth and Wisdom.
Write a letter to a friend, who thinks that the British}
Empire is expanding too rapidly, endeavouring to allay
his fears. Write also his reply.

Has commercial enterprise done more to promote peacex or to promote war between nations?

The inconveniences of greatness.

Write a letter to a friend who has said that a military career is likely to blunt the feelings, aud maintain the opposite point of view. Write also his reply.

To what extent is exaggeration justifiable in journalism? "Blood is thicker than water."

90. Write a letter to a friend contending that the abilities necessary to produce a great statesman are no greater than those needed for a successful general.

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his reply, taking the opposite point of view.

Queen Victoria's reign.

Write also

Are Polar Expeditions worth the hardship and sacrifice involved?

The advantages and disadvantages that would follow the adoption of a universal language.

"Courage is the highest of virtues, because it is that one which makes all other virtues possible." Discuss this statement.

Write a letter to a friend contending that a war is likely to produce less suffering nowadays than at the beginning of the century. Write his reply, taking the opposite view.