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Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
...opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...
...London, Winchester's headmaster, Canon Spencer Leeson, deplored the competition between schools that leads to undercutting of fees. Said Canon Leeson: "The school is not a shop. It is a spiritual community. . . . The State might select schools to meet the needs and close the rest." Answered Eton's provost, dry Lord Quickswood: "He talks just like Adolf Hitler...
...aristocratic "public" (British for private) schools have suffered financially. One of them, Weymouth, has closed. The rest are so hard up that they are getting Parliament to pass a bill to let them spend endowment capital. Eton advertised one of its houses to let, and an Eton master hinted that the school might one day be reduced to admitting girls...
TIME, Jan. 20 quotes the Duke of Wellington as having said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. . . . According to Lyte's History of Eton College, the only record of any remark of this kind is contained in a contemporary account . . . : "He looked into the garden and asked what had become of the broad ditch over which he used often to leap. He said: 'I really believe I owe my spirit of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden...