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...Eton's Black Block...
...boys of England's Eton, Headmaster Claude Aurelius Elliott was known as the Emperor. The son of a onetime lieutenant governor of Bengal, he seldom ventured too near his own little subjects; some boys went several years without ever meeting him at all. The Emperor was never ruffled when parents wondered why he paid no attention to their boy. "Unless he is a very outstanding figure in school life," he would tell them, "you can be glad I haven...
...slender Emperor believed, as an old Etonian should, in the classics in the classroom and pluck on the playing fields. During World War II he stood firm against parents who suggested that Eton should be moved to a place more remote from enemy bombs. If London's poor could not move from London, said the Emperor, Etonians would not move from Eton. Later, some bombs did fall, barely missing a library full of boys. But Eton did not move...
...years, he ran Eton smoothly, and got its depression-ridden finances back into shape. Last week the Emperor announced that he would retire at the end of the summer term. To take Claude Elliott's place, the Provost and Fellows of Eton appointed a headmaster of a different kidney...
...Eton Made Me. Connolly concludes his book with a chunk of autobiography that illustrates parts of his thesis. Like Shelleyblake, he too had shown high promise. From his prep school he won a scholarship to Eton; from Eton he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He drugged himself with the heady compliments of classics masters, and made a bible of the Romantic tradition. Now, he feels, it was hardly surprising that his boyish successes served only to underscore his inability to continue them. "I was to continue . . . being promising indefinitely . . . Promise is the capacity for letting people down...