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Like other Buchmanite books. For Sinners Only calls many a good Buchmanite by name, often by nickname. Some noted Buchmanites mentioned: Princeton's Professor Philip Marshall Brown. Manhattan's Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr., William Gilliland ("Bill Pickle"), onetime bootlegger to Penn State, Eton's Loudon Hamilton, Oxford's Canon Grensted. Author Russell naturally fails to mention such onetime Buchmanites as Princeton's Wilhelmus Bryan, Salem's Cornelius Trowbridge and Oxford's Murray Webb Peploe...
Mike quit the hotel. In November, 1923, he quit Harvard. He had been summoned to the University office, where many documents were laid before him. These indicated that he was not a Romanoff, that his current name was unknown at Eton or Oxford, and that he had bilked many students, professors, and tradespeople. "Gentlemen," replied Mike, "I must decline to discuss the matter...
FAMILY HISTORY-V. Sackville-West- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) Aging ladies who pored over All Passion Spent as if it were a mirror will not find quite the same fascination in Family History. When her latest narrative goes so far as to make skeptical faces at Eton and at Eton's God, conservative readers will have to take comfort in remembering that Victoria Sackville-West's family have lived in 365-room Knole Castle since Queen Elizabeth's days that she is so aristocratic she can safely be allowed a certain latitude in criticizing home truths...
Author Baring went to Eton and is still very proud of it. He seems to be unashamed of having been an undergraduate at "both Universities" (Oxford & Cambridge), a feat few Englishmen would care to mention. He tried Oxford first, "was ploughed" (flunked out) when he translated socordiam eorum inridere licet ?"It is licentious to laugh at a sister of mercy"?put his answers in the Divinity paper into such rhymes...
...Cuthbert Harold Blakiston, 53, headmaster since 1925 of SS. Mary & Nicolas College (Lancing College), one of England's first-rank secondary schools. Headmaster Blakiston, an old Oxonian, has been an assistant master at Sherbourne, a house master at Eton. His reputation as Lancing's head is considerable. Last week he told the British Medical Association that the boy of today is not the boy of 30 years ago. The old spirit of adventure is gone, the old initiative impaired. "In place of the adventurous outdoor sportsman of the past," gloomed Cuthbert Harold Blakiston, "we now have youths...