Editing Arthur Evans (section)

====Harrow====
[[File:The Old Schools, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex - geograph.org.uk - 364722.jpg|thumb|Harrow School]]
After a [[Preparatory school (UK)|preparatory school]],  he entered [[Harrow School]] in 1865 at the age of 14. He was co-editor of ''[[The Harrovian]]'' in his final year, 1869/70.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Harrow School Register, 1801–1900|edition=Second|year=1901|first=MG|last=Dauglish|page=343|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co|location=London, New York, Bombay | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244}}</ref> At Harrow he was friends with [[Francis Maitland Balfour]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Old Harrow days|first=James George Cotton|last=Minchin|publisher=Methuen Co|location=London|year=1898|page=[https://archive.org/details/oldharrowdays01mincgoog/page/n223 205]|isbn=1-117-38991-X | url=https://archive.org/details/oldharrowdays01mincgoog}}</ref> They competed for the Natural History Prize; the outcome was a draw. They were both highly athletic, including riding and swimming, and also mountain climbing, during which activity Balfour was killed later in life. Evans was near-sighted, but refused to wear glasses.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} His close-up vision was better than normal, enabling him to see detail missed by others. Farther away his field of vision was blurry and he compensated by carrying a cane, which he called Prodger, to explore the environment. His wit was very sharp, too sharp for the administration, which stopped a periodical he had started, ''The Pen-Viper'', after the first issue.<ref>{{harvnb|Cottrell|1958|pp=84–85}}.</ref>