Public School[s provided] the door of entrance into the ‘governing class’…In many respects the Public Schools were a success… But the Subjects which they taught were too much confined to the classics to meet all the requirements of the new age , though they formed the basis for a high development of literary culture at Oxford and Cambridge, in Tennyson’s English as large. In the microcosm of ‘Public school’ life…character gained more than originality