Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to President M. E. Bothner '34 there is a number of experienced new men out. Among these are L. J. C. Balsan 1GB of the Paris University Club, A. D. Cadman '35 of Harrow, John Lomax gr.E.S. of the Manchester Club, John Megaw sL, T. H. O'Brien 1G of Oxford, and A. S. Thorburn '35 of Loretto School, Scotland...
...effective universal school training, not alone in primary, but in secondary grades as well. And the universities are rapidly opening their doors to the product of the ever-increasing secondary schools, instead of confining their entrants almost exclusively to graduates of the old "public schools," (such as Eton and Harrow, which correspond to American private preparatory schools...
...actuality." Accordingly, a bulletin-board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering the "Crompton Elocution Prize for Clear Speaking into a Microphone...
With this lack of humor and understanding, Eton and Harrow are endeavoring to lend a democratic flavor to what have always been gentlemen's schools. But far more to the point than these superficial concessions to practicality is Highgate's provision of new workshops, where boys can build usable machinery with their own hands and lie on their backs in overalls beneath Austins in the making. This is the sort of healthy handicraft that really balances intellectuality, as the Hill School hobby-shop in America has effectively shown. Equally commendable is the honest purpose of Kimmel Hall, a new school...
...back home!" cry was reference to Sir Oswald's origin in the House as a Conservative from Harrow, Middlesex. That he was not "back home" was demonstrated not only by the unwillingness of the Conservatives and Liberals of His Majesty's Opposition to yield him a place, but by their voting so wholeheartedly for the bill he opposed that it passed on the second reading...