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...moving toward effective universal school training, not alone in primary, but in secondary grades as well. And the universities are rapidly opening their doors to the product of the ever-increasing secondary schools, instead of confining their entrants almost exclusively to graduates of the old "public schools," (such as Eton and Harrow, which correspond to American private preparatory schools...
...Anglophile roads in the Monitor with something of a shock that time honored English public-schools are vying with each other in adopting vocational curricula to meet "the specific need of modern democracy for leaders with broad sympathies and a strong sense of actuality." Accordingly, a bulletin-board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering...
With this lack of humor and understanding, Eton and Harrow are endeavoring to lend a democratic flavor to what have always been gentlemen's schools. But far more to the point than these superficial concessions to practicality is Highgate's provision of new workshops, where boys can build usable machinery with their own hands and lie on their backs in overalls beneath Austins in the making. This is the sort of healthy handicraft that really balances intellectuality, as the Hill School hobby-shop in America has effectively shown. Equally commendable is the honest purpose of Kimmel Hall, a new school...
...Author. Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton (TIME, June 29), famed Old & New Testament scholar (author of The Apocryphal New Testament, Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, Old Testament Legends) says his ghost stories are based on neither his own nor others' experience. They were suggested mostly by reading, by places; once by a dream. If you were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly...
Medals for weight-putting and other feats of strength were won by Student Locker-Lampson at Eton and Cambridge; in 1898 he won the Prince Consort's Prize for German; in 1900 edited the Cambridge undergraduate Granta. Amateur theatricals were still his passion after he became a barrister and later Lieutenant-Commander...