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...subject of the disagreement at Buckingham Palace was: What school should 13-year-old Prince Charles attend? Queen Elizabeth wanted Eton, where Charles would wear a swallowtail coat, and mix mainly with sons of U.K.'s uppermost crust. Father Philip held out for Scotland's rugged Gordonstoun, his own old school, which among other goals aims to "free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege." Last week the palace announced the choice: Gordonstoun...
Nudist. War profiteer. Absentee war correspondent. Liar. Fourflusher. Sycophant. Coat holder...
...voted for Boulder Dam agricultural supports, and many another project that had no particular connection with the parochial interests of South Boston. Yet McCormack is an oldfashioned, frock-coat liberal, and a vastly different breed from the young, grey-flannel liberals who man the New Frontier. McCormack's liberalism is instinctive and emotional, culled from personal experience as a member of the "deserving poor." He has little use for the liberalism derived largely from books and faculty-club discussions. Such House liberals as Missouri's Richard Boi ling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson regard McCormack...
...seems that President Eliot noticed a student without an overcoat wandering around the Yard on a wintery day in the 1890's. The warm-hearted man that he was, Eliot gave him his coat. When the young man came of age, he in turn provided an overcoat for a needy undergraduate and established the Thayer trans mutendum Fund...
Traditionally, each recipient later donates an overcoat to an undergraduate in the succeeding college generation. Thayer recipients also pass on to one another a piece of parchment from the coat that Eliot originally gave to the shivering student...