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...yard dash: won by Secrist (Smith); second, Eton (Gore); third, Dorn (Gore). Time...
...yard dash: won by Eton (Gore); second, Secrist (Smith); third, Ilsley (Gore). Time...
Schooled at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Mr. Bridges followed medicine until 1882, thereafter devoting himself to letters. He is the author of many volumes of classical verse and numerous critical monographs. He was named laureate in 1913. He will be 79 next month...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
...first three Henry P. Davison scholarships were awarded to three Oxford men: C. V. Salmon, Harrow and Balliol; J. Bird, Clongowes and Balliol; R. W. Cecil, Eton and Christ Church. Salmon goes to Princeton; Bird, prominent athlete, to Harvard; Cecil, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., G.B.E., to Yale...