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...Story. Percy Bysshe Shelley, scion of a rich Whig family, first went to Eton. He was "exceptionally beautiful, with brilliant blue eyes, dark curling hair and a delicate complexion." The brutal Vita Etonica shocked his sensitive mind and he was glad to move on to the freedom of Oxford...
Declaring himself as heartily in favor of discussion on the subject of socialism, Professor A. B. Hart '80, Eton Professor of the Science of Government, disagreed with the statement of Professor O. M. W. Sprague appearing in the CRIMSON of yesterday, in which he scored as futile any discussion on socialism. Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government, and W. E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion and Civil Polity, agreed with Professor Hart...
...colleges and schools, have been entertained at dinners in London under the auspices of the American University Union, at which they have met the heads of the leading educational institutions of England. They have been also received by the headmasters and representatives of the student body at Winchester and Eton Colleges, as well as Oxford and Cambridge. At the Episcopal Palace at Malines they were welcomed by Cardinal Mercier. A portion of the group was granted an audience with His Holiness, Plus X. Every effort will be made to eliminate the tourist appearance of the party. The total number will...
...discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken out recently, and breaks out periodically, at Washington. Certainly no college man can quite overlook the possibility of public service; and as obviously...
...reputed " quiet, even retiring." He was, before the Soviet Government confiscated all his property, one of the richest men in Russia, and could, it was said, travel from one end of European Russia to another and sleep each night on his own property. He was educated in England at Eton and Oxford, being a contemporary of the present Prince of Wales at Magdalen College...