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...Duke of Wellington is said to have observed, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." This statement reflects a recognition that teaching and learning can occur in many places and that work need not be contrasted with play. The ultimate test is whether youngsters grow up to be decent human beings and whether, when it is their turn, they can successfully transmit values and practices to their offspring. Recent talk that parents do not matter is highly misleading. We do matter, especially when it comes to inculcating discipline, respect, responsibility, core values. Perhaps we cannot...
...agreed to answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform: swallowtail jacket, striped trousers and starched shirt. Although his mother once mentioned that she wanted him to go to Harvard (his father went to Cambridge), he declined to say what university he wants to attend. When he got hit on the head by a golf club at age eight...
DIED. JOHN WELLS, 61, satirical British writer-actor; of cancer; in London. An Oxford graduate and schoolmaster at Eton College, Wells found relief from his straitlaced company in dispatches to the humor magazine Private Eye, writing the columns Mrs. Wilson's Diary and Dear Bill--purportedly Denis Thatcher's crotchety chronicle of life with the Iron Lady...
Halksworth said about 10 men apply to the U.S. each year from Eton out of a graduating class of 250 students. "I have two boys who were accepted for early application at Harvard," he said. "And two more are waiting...
Halksworth of Eton said British students are not conditioned for the tests and applications required for entrance to American colleges...