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...front cover) Throughout the U. S. last week schoolboys had packed their college pennants in mothballs and were off for summer holidays, But in England, school was by no means over. At Harrow, Governor's Speech Day took place. This week at Eton prize awards are being made. Then will follow one of the year's most pleasant occasions: the Long Weekend of the Long (Summer) Term. To Lord's Cricket Ground.- in London's pleasant suburbs will the schoolboy go, to see played the Eton-Harrow cricket match...
...will be glad when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear...
...Cyril Argentine Alington, 59, headmaster of Eton since 1916. Tall, personable, he is an Oxonian, onetime (1908-16) headmaster of Shrewsbury School, chaplain since 1921 to King George V. To carry on at Eton he refused the deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well...
...Eton's greatest holiday takes place on Speech Day. This, June 4, is the birthday of King George III, Eton's greatest patron, who is more revered even than King Henry VI who founded Eton in 1440. It is because King George III is dead that Eton keeps to its melancholy mourning garb of black suit and shiny topper. All but 29 Etonians must throughout the year observe a number of strict rules: they must leave unbuttoned the bottom waistcoat button, (and in after life they usually continue to do so). They must walk, with coat collar turned...
...begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...