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Died. Robert Burns Robertson, 76, longtime (1912-26) resident architect of Windsor Castle, onetime (1923-24) president of the Windsor & Eton Scientific and Archaeological Society; of heart disease; in Mount Vernon...
...Eton, England's biggest (1,150 students), most expensive ($1,225 tuition), most exclusive "public" (i. e., private) school, today is on the defensive, abroad as well as at home. Traditional training ground for Britain's ruling "Gentlemen," it has produced ten Prime Ministers. One-sixth of the members of Commons are old Etonians. But in trade and government service, everywhere, except in Britain's Foreign Office, Etonians are being shouldered out by the products of more plebeian schools. Even those who cherish Eton's traditions most tenderly admit that Eton needs some reforms...
...many ways Eton is more modern than newer schools. Discipline (except for shirking studies) and games are almost entirely in the students' hands. The members of Pop and of "The Library," elect their own successors, make rules, impose punishment. Fagging (running errands and making tea for their elders) humbles young aristocrats...
Lest the school fall into too deep a rut, each of the 28 houses in which Eton boys live changes its name and its tutor every 16 years (three Eton generations). The curriculum changes more slowly. A hundred years ago every boy studied Greek and Latin, today most still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes...
...Life at Eton is full of strange and inhuman punishments for Lower Boys. They tremble at a summons from "The Library," dread the tutor's ticket which carries penalties ranging from a sharp look, or writing 100 lines of Latin, to a sound tanning. But Eton's humbling birch rods, fagging and games are no match for the educational effect of Eton's snobbish traditions. Today it is still true of its products that "Etonians as a class are not popular with non-Etonians...