Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England a man is judged as much by his school as by his college. To be from Eton or Harrow means as much as being an Oxford or a Cambridge graduate. If in this country the secondary schools would also take upon themselves the task of fitting their students for life as well as for college, a great number of men who really do not belong in college would not be there now, and the intellectual standards of the university could adapt themselves to the capacities of the more intelligent students...
...past three years sketched or photographed most of the famed beauties of Britain and the U. S., has written dozens of chatty articles for international smartcharts. Attired in orange-&-white pajamas, dressing gown of black-&-white corded silk, he readily admitted that he had been to Harrow and Cambridge, had been drawing and painting ever since he was seven, took up photography seriously at Cambridge where he had a studio. Photographer Beaton's father is "something in The City...