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...organization. So small is England, and so narrow the room at the top, that one man's rise is often at the expense of another. Or perhaps the clubby, family nature of the House has something to do with it: so many knew each other at Winchester or Eton, and again at Oxford or Cambridge. The other day, speaking on a corporal-punishment bill, a brigadier M.P. lightly recalled how he as a schoolboy had been wrongly caned by an honorable member a few feet from him. It was all very chummy...
Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
There were a few cases, King stated, but they stopped about 12 days ago when a man was picked up on Massachusetts Avenue on "suspicion." After questioning at the station, the offender, a middle age man, dressed like a college student and wearing an Eton cap, confessed to several "exposures." He was identified as a temporary Cambridge resident, unemployed at the time...
...Brattle production is perfect. As Mr. Posket, Arthur Treacher give a very funny performance, demonstrating his flair for pantomime. Wilson Hall looks a very gay blade in an Eton jacket, as the 19- year-old 14-year-old; and Paul Ballantyne and Peter Temple make an excellent pair as Colonel Lukyn and Captain Vale. Sylvia Stone only slightly over-plays the more difficult role of Mrs. Posket only a bit too broadly...
...speaking, of course) into the larger world that counts for so much more than sport. They will remember their happy undergraduate days, and they will be fired with a feeling of sportsmanship. The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; we would amend his inspired sentence to read: the battle of life is to be won on the playing field of Harvard Stadium...