ABSTRACT
By the Edwardian era the celebrated English Public School System of private schools for the privileged, revitalised and reinvigorated in the wake of triumphant imperial expansion, was widely considered to be the source of imperial control, stability and morality: in short, for many the reason for imperial success. The schools were thought to be cultural conveyor belts with the games fields as factories for the production of a robust, confident and moral masculinity. The potency of this ideology should never be underestimated: The impact of Athleticism was crushingly tectonic throughout the Golden Age of British Imperialism in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In finale, Alec Waugh reconstructed the relationship between period public schoolboy and public school without compunction and without compassion apothegmatically, and with a personal thesaurus of callow insensitivity, albeit a sharp pen. He had no policy of sensitive accommodation.
