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...admission) a violent temper. When, aged 23, she started her school in Wallingford, Conn., she had no college degree but very definite educational notions. British-born and a militant feminist, she decided that girls should get no more coddling than boys, set out to establish a girls' Eton. Her motto: "No rot." Her program: athletics for all, self-government, hard work...
This week Collector Hill published his glorified football album. Football Thru the Years (Gridiron Publishing Co.; $2.50) depicts the history of U. S. football-from Rugby's Bigside and Eton's Wall Game (British-born ancestors of U. S. football), through the white-canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game...
Young Henry was about to leave Eton when the Star of David over the door of his uncle's town house in Berkeley Square began vaguely to mean something...
Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...
Education of a Prince. In 1915, when he was 14, before he went to Eton, Leopold demanded and for six months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier. After Eton, he was tutored for four years along special lines mapped by his father, emphasizing economics. Also, travel. Oldtime U. S. newspapermen remember the democratic young prince (no great contrast, except among gay ladies, to Britain's then Prince of Wales) who accompanied King Albert through the U. S. in 1919, playing poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited...