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...produced their leaders, but after the war it will be found that their day is done." Reason: war taxes will be so heavy that few parents will be able to pay $800 a year for a boy's education. Only way to save such schools as Eton and Harrow, said Sir Cyril, will be for the Government to fill them with scholarship students...
Next day there was a great waving and yanking of the old school tie in the House of Commons. Up rose Sir Annesley Somerville, ex-Eton master, to ask what would become of Britain without the public-school spirit. Cried Laborite H. B. Lees-Smith: "Life in a boarding school is a crowd life, a herd life. . . . This unnatural system has resulted in virtually two nations. The masses, educated in State-controlled day schools, never come into contact with the sheltered lads of Harrow and Eton...
Meanwhile, wartime hardships piled up on Eton's "sheltered lads." Latest: Eton footballers were reduced to wearing hand-me-down shirts. Old Etonians who had won their House colors were persuaded to give back their prized shirts...
...elite game of racquets, nobody seriously disputes the U. S. supremacy of 27-year-old, London-born Robert Grant III (Eton-Harvard-Wall Street). A dark, intent-eyed broker with shoulders that slope as ominously as Joe Louis', Grant can drive a racquets ball faster and more tellingly than any other racqueteer. In the last three years he has cornered the vaunted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, U. S. amateur and open, Canadian singles and both U. S. and Canadian doubles (with Clarence C. Pell Jr.). U. S. racqueteers predict that Grant will handily win the world's open championship...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...