Word: harrowed
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...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
Like so many monks, the boys of Eton and Harrow had practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
...Harrow favored no single style. After basic drill on squared paper, its boys were left to develop their own, using as their models great manuscripts of the past six centuries which had been borrowed from the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...almost as badly at Harrow. He was kept in the lowest form because he could not learn Latin and Greek, only English. "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing." He is grateful to Harrow, and tries to be fair: "Harrow was a very good school." But Churchill cannot refrain from one last bite: "Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life...
People's Father. This is Nehru's first trip to the U.S., although he has traveled much and is no stranger to Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...