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Stonyhurst College (1187 words) |
 | Stonyhurst is the lineal descendant of the college founded by Father Robert Persons in 1592, at St. Omer in Artois, for English boys, compelled by the penal laws of Elizabethan times to seek on the continent that religious education which was denied them at home. |
 | At the Stonyhurst training college more advanced courses in these subjects are followed by students of the Society, who are engaged in such additional subjects as pedagogy, biology, anthropology, etc. The "Philosophers", numbering usually about thirty, possess the status of university students. |
 | The rector of Stonyhurst is one of a limited number of headmasters to whom the War Office has granted the power of giving direct nominations to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. |
| Solar Observing: Stonyhurst Disks (79 words) |
 | Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 100 mm |
 | Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 125 mm |
 | Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 150 mm |