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...Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
...recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise in the world was accompanied by no spread in popularity. There are only twelve racquets courts which cost some $75,000 each...
These words of the Prime Minister, said Major Attlee, were "a thoroughly mean attack on the United States of America." Recalling that Stanley Baldwin was educated at swank Harrow School, the Major added as his parting shot: "It has been said that Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton. Abyssinia was lost on the playing fields of Harrow...
...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...
...always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would...