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Probably the most valuable books in this display, however, are the manuscripts of "The Rectory umbrella", and the "Mischmasch". The former is a little book done by Lewis Carroll while at Eton, charmingly written and illustrated, and of double interest because most of it has never been published. The "Mischmasch" was written by Carroll while at Oxford, and contains the first verse of his poem the "jabberwocky" which was not published until 25 years later. There is a translation of the words in the first verse showing how they were formed. As this has never been published, and explains...
...Long hair no, bobbed no go, Eton crop yah hoo, severe shingle righto...
...Will he never grow up?" wondered Britons when they learned, last week, that Edward of Wales, 33, had slipped off like an Eton schoolboy to the new Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in Marylebone Road.† There His Royal Highness promenaded for an hour unrecognized, viewed an excellent dummy likeness of himself, and was finally detected by a knowing urchin while he lingered in the Chamber of Horrors...
...break in tradition was announced today when it was made known that the famous old school of Eton in England will install tennis courts. The great English public schools have hitherto frowned on tennis, preferring football and cricket games for inculcating a spirit of team play...
...change is partially due to pressure from alumni, who have informed the school authorities that while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...