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...great deal of shrewd insight. What he recommends is practically a bodily transference of the English tutorial system to Harvard, but he falls to grasp the fact that such a change would be impractical and impossible here. If American preparatory schools measured up to the high standards of Eton and Rugby, then Mr. Darrow would be completely justified in his desire to see the practices of the great English universities speedily imported. But such an event would benefit only a small minority and would sound the death-knell of any hope of cultivating the remainder...
Friday, August 21, to Monday, August 24--In London. *Seats in sightseeing auto provided on 2 1-2 days with private guide visiting the city. Windsor. Eton and Hampton Court...
...Author. Aldous Huxley, an admirer of Charles Dickens, a nephew of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...
Lord Cecil was first put in swaddling clothes 60 years ago. As a young lad, clad in grey trousers, black coat with its pointed back, a vast expanse of white collar, and a tall, shiny "topper," he entered Eton. He left the famous school without having achieved distinction, went to University College, Oxford, dressed in the tight, long trousers and flowing coat that was a peculiar product of the Victorian Age. He entered the service of his august father, as had his four brothers, known merely as a Cecil...
...royal couple spoke English perfectly (the Prince was educated at Eton and Oxford) ; and said they intended to visit Boston, Chicago and other places en route to San Francisco, where they are to embark for Japan, thence home. "Home is always a good place to get back to," remarked the Princess...