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Excerpt from The King's Scholars and King's Hall: Notes on the History of King Hall, Published on the Six-Hundredth Anniversary of the Writ of Edward II Establishing the King's Scholars in the University of Cambridge
The object of the foundation was to provide a home for students who entered the University with the object of preparing themselves for future work in church and state, and never in the history of the Society does there appear to have been any desire for the scholars to take a prominent part in academic work as such. The class of students selected for admission, and the periods for which their names were kept on the boards varied at different times, but always we believe the primary object of the Society was to train men for the service of the country: thus we come across instances of leave of absence granted to scholars to attend missions abroad, and in later times we find some of the senior scholars engaged in public affairs and constantly non-resident.
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