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The interesting twist or link on the history and development of Rugger, Chris, is that Rugby school was also under the headship of one Thomas Arnold, father of Matthew, and most certainly the cult of 'manly sports' among the Victorians was intended to quell the arousal of 'unwholesome passions' among the inmates. T.Arnold, progenitor as well as Matthew thus both Leavis and TSE the critic thus the judicious canon, was also daddy of the making of the 'sons of empire', which notion of a dissociated placeless governing class (plus accent) translates dove and tail into today's 'managerial culture', where the death of mind is a prerequisite for acceptance, and thought shrivels unnamed on a language of nonspeak and group conformity, above the deadened rhythms of call-centres all answering together with the same words. Probably the rugger's being shown via satellite in the rest-room. Dave