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TREASURES OF ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY: 550 YEARS OF COLLECTING, the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. For the first time in the U.S., books, manuscripts, drawings and objects from the famous college (prep school, to Americans) that has been molding the English elite since 1440. Among the choice displays: the holograph of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), by onetime Eton schoolboy Thomas Gray. Through...
...would confuse Seward Park High School with Eton. Half the students at this underfunded, overcrowded facility on New York City's Lower East Side are from single-parent homes, and 65% come from families eligible for welfare. As many as 150 have been abandoned by their parents or are from families that have been evicted. Drugs and alcohol are a way of life. That any learning takes place under such circumstances is nothing short of miraculous. But miracles can happen, as former New York Times reporter Samuel Freedman demonstrates in Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students...
Born in England of Indian parents, Iyer immigrated to California when he was seven, and soon began commuting 5,500 miles back to Britain to attend Eton and then Oxford, where he took a master's degree in English. Betwixt and between, Iyer traveled. When he was 17, he toured by bus through half a dozen Latin American countries. Eventually, he quit globe-trotting long enough to pick up another master's degree, at Harvard, where he also taught for two years before signing on as a staff writer for TIME in 1982. (He accepted the job from...
Thesiger's greatest adventures came after the war in the vast deserts of southern Arabia, where for five years he traveled with the Bedouin. They receive his highest praise: "I knew I could not match them in physical endurance, but, with my family background, Eton, Oxford, the Sudan Political Service, I did perhaps think I would match them in civilized behaviour." That they do not make men like Thesiger anymore is obvious. That men like Thesiger were always as rare as water beds in the Sahara is gloriously evident in his proud and courtly autobiography...
Born in 1890, Menzies was one of the golden boys of the British aristocracy. His family was rich and well placed, and he progressed comfortably along one of the courses marked out for England's future leaders: Eton, the Life Guards (whose duty it was to protect the sovereign), riding to hounds with the most exalted men in the realm...