1863 G. O. Trevelyan Lett. from Competition Wallah i, in May 85/2 The Philathletic club at Harrow.
1922 S. Leslie iii. 42 In an anti-musical philathletic school he was always anxious to impress the new boys.
1997 112 1089 Those public-school teachers who mounted a counter-attack against the philathletic cult.