Eton Montem 'Floreat Etona!' he unfurls, and thrice waves the consecrated standard." Eton Montem Eton Montem (or "ad Montem" – literally "to the Mountain") was a custom observed by Eton College from at least 1561 until it was finally suppressed in 1847, at the Montem Mound (or Salt Hill) in Chalvey, Slough, Buckinghamshire (later Berkshire). The mound is situated some 2 miles from the college near the London to Bath coach road, now the A4. Montem is first reported in William Malim's "consuetudinarium" (book of customs) of 1561, when it seems to have been an initiation ceremony for new boys, who were
Eton College Britain's top three schools in getting its pupils into Oxford and Cambridge. From the 1980s to 2016 Eton admitted more very wealthy students from around the world and fewer legacy students (students from families of previous alumni) from the UK; due to a sharp rise in tuition fees, the dissolution in 1990 of the "Eton List" that allowed alumni to pre-register their sons for enrollment, and changes in the school culture, fewer legacy families (families of previous alumni) enrolled. In 1960, 60% of the students were sons of Eton alumni, while 20% in 2016 were sons of Eton alumni. Its