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Old 03-13-2008, 12:36 AM
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Kinda like the Ivy League?

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The sons of the gentry would attend the public schools from an early age. To be honest I'm not sure how young, possibly from age 8 or 9.
I would think Oxford and Cambridge Universities are about the nearest thing to Yale and Harvard.
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