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...social cross-section is to be concentrated upon, the Houses should be made as attractive as possible to the maximum number of groups. It has been the most constant complaint, coming strangely enough from both sides, that the men from Eton and Harrow by their yearly desertion deal the most telling blow to the whole House plan. In the majority of cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should...
Entered at Eton for 1949 was Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick of Kent, six-month-old son of the Duke & Duchess of Kent...
...have no political turnover in federal jobs every four years. Prominent educators in this country have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will set up an institution that will rival the traditional British "Cursus Honorum", Eton and Oxford, since it will create a class of public servants, as independent and as distinct as our present Army and Navy...
...before he was sent to boarding school he kept repeating, "Life is hard!" but his first postcard was reassuring: "I am just going out to play footer. I am getting on very well. I have not made many enimas, much love." From his first school Antony went on to Eton, where he spent six happy years, getting into scrapes, making numerous friends, winning prizes for both scholarship and athletics. Boxing was his principal sport...
...After Eton, Oxford seemed dull. His family was off in India where his father was serving as Governor of Bengal and the bright spots in Antony's life were skiing vacations in Switzerland. He was "sent down" for a fortnight for playing in a roulette game, worried his distant family by his frank reports of dissipation ("No wonder people get drunk at Oxford! It is a silly life!"). But he won his "blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer...