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...REGIMENTED: BREAKFAST AT 8 A.M., chapel at 8:30. Lessons begin at 9, pause briefly for an 11:20 biscuit break, then resume. Lunch is at 1:25: a meat, two vegetables and a traditional pudding. And then, after lunch, he forays onto those famous playing fields. At Eton there are few spare moments for reflection, and it may be just as well. One can only guess the thoughts last week of the 13-year-old registered at that ancient school as William of Wales, H.R.H. Prince...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...
...York Times advised that "six of the best," as he suffered at an English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...
...that kind of impish self-assurance that makes the school's enemies see red. It is not that the best-qualified students go to Eton, they charge, but that going to Eton is the best qualification for success: as recently as 1960, fully one-fifth of all Conservative Members of Parliament were Old Etonians (imagine 60 Republican Congressmen coming from a single high school). The school's defenders retaliate by pointing out that its distinctive features -- every boy has a room of his own and attends regular tutorials, known as Private Business -- ensure that it will continue to produce...
EDUCATION: Eton celebrates an anniversary...