Word: harrovians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since then, wily Old Harrovian Churchill has often quoted Latin in Parliament and, jibing at Harrow's ancient rival, offered to translate "for the benefit of any Old Etonians present...
Last week many Old Harrovians fondly grunted Harrow's Stet Fortuna Domus as they leafed through just the kind of book that Old Harrovians like. Put together by other Old Harrovians, bound in deep Harrovian blue, it was called Winston Churchill and Harrow, Memories of the Prime Minister's Schooldays...
Winston Churchill has remained as unorthodox an Old Harrovian as he was a young one. At his last visit to the school in December 1940, he said: "Herr Hitler, in one of his recent discourses . . . declared that the fight was between those who had been through the Adolf Hitler schools and those who had been at Eton. Hitler had forgotten Harrow, and he had also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work...
...Harrovians it seems more than a matter of pride that Winston Churchill should have gone to Harrow. It seems inevitable. But when small, redhaired, freckled Spencer Churchill, W. L., as he was known on the register, attended the school 50 years ago the Harrow community did not entirely approve of him. Some of the masters and the more model boys felt that he was scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps...