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"Away to school"

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The 1843 school song, "Away to School," has a jaunty tune (as in Juvenile Harmonist, 1843) which may not match contemporary children's enthusiasm for school, but the impoverished 19th C child whose parents could barely send them to inexpensive Sunday schools, nor afford their weekly attendance when the family needed the child's income, I can imagine plenty of enthusiasm on those trips to school: "Our youthful hearts with learning burn...to science our steps we turn" (v. 1), "in study now we spend our day."  It is a merry picture of "united in a peaceful band,/ We're join'd in heart, we're join'd in hand." This above picture is of an 1890 school and class.
 

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  1. 2017 seated in sepia-cropped
  2. Away to school score