Word: etonisms
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...jolly-boating-weather day last week, Britain's hard-pressed aristocracy forgot their troubles and the Labor Government, put on their fanciest duds, and turned out en masse on the broad banks of the Thames at Eton. They were there to celebrate the 500th birthday* of Britain's biggest, most snobbish and most influential public (i.e., private) school...
...afternoon began with cricket on the playing fields of Eton, but what everyone had come for was the historic "procession of boats," which lasted on into evening under the red glare of rockets. As boat after boat passed the Royal Enclosure where the Duke of Gloucester (an Old Etonian) sat with his royal nieces, the schoolboy crews stood with glistening, uplifted oars in salute. Nobody spilled, and Princess Elizabeth sent her congratulations to the Captain of the Boats...
...anybody's guess whether Eton could keep its course steady in its sixth century as it had in its first five. True, two members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...
Sorry, It's a Girl. Eton was in no mood to change. For generations, Old Etonians have registered their sons at Eton the day they are born. (Some prospective fathers wire practically the minute their wives become pregnant, sometimes have to wire again: "Sorry, it's a girl.") Eton is booked solid...
...high cost of an Eton education (about $1400 a year) keeps the doors closed to almost all but the well-heeled. Besides its 1,050 "Oppidans," or tuition-paying students, Eton has 70 "Collegers" on scholarships. But the Collegers are sons of the Army, the civil service and the professions, not sons of workers...