The great proportion of the boys are home boarders (Town Boys).
The only exception is the Hamidieh school for boys - a government institution which takes both boarders and day-scholars.
Hardly a noble house of Spain or Italy was not represented in the fleet, and the princes headed the boarders.
The wool-growing industry has been almost entirely destroyed by the competition of Australia and the West, and the people are now engaged mainly in dairy-farming, timbering, graniteand marble-quarrying, and in keeping summer boarders.
Mathematics and classics are taught in them and the masters are allowed to take boarders.