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Flood waters swelled the Thames three miles wide in Buckinghamshire. Eton College closed, its playing fields eight feet under water...
...course, the British Debating Team who are to uphold the affirmative. T. L. Jarman, Davison scholar from New College, Oxford, K. G. F. Balfour '32, formerly of Eton College, and Miss E. Mandelbaum, Radcliffe '32, are those who will deseant on this side Opposing them in deflance. Mrs. E. Linden, Radcliffe '30, Miss Lingerfelter. Radcliffe '31, and C. W. Lightbody 1G of Toronto University and Worcester College, Oxford, will take the floor. Professor Garrod of Merton College, Oxford, has kindly consented to preside. As the debate is open to the public and the motion is to be thrown open...
...Stephen P. Cabot in Phillips Brooks House. The Vagabond admits a keen interest in the British schools which have produced so many centuries of leadership in all the branches of public and private life. So he is faced with a difficult choice between Bach and Schumann or Eton and Winchester...
...football jerseys of "Grotties" are laterally striped in black and white. Should the Groton game be won, crepe is hung upon a stuffed zebra at the lower end of the St. Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle...
Robert Bridges was born on the Isle of Thanet, was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Until he was 38 he practiced medicine. Then he began publishing poetry, much of it experimenting in Classical metre.* In 1913, aged 69, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Premier Asquith, succeeding Laureate Alfred Austin. Laureate Bridges is a founder of the Society for Pure English, serves as arbiter of pronunciation in British radio broadcasting...