Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Throughout the U. S. last week schoolboys had packed their college pennants in mothballs and were off for summer holidays, But in England, school was by no means over. At Harrow, Governor's Speech Day took place. This week at Eton prize awards are being made. Then will follow one of the year's most pleasant occasions: the Long Weekend of the Long (Summer) Term. To Lord's Cricket Ground.- in London's pleasant suburbs will the schoolboy go, to see played the Eton-Harrow cricket match...
...will be glad when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear...
...privileged to dress as Pops on the day of Eton-Harrow match and on June 4. There are then cricket, fireworks, a parade of crews costumed as 18th Century sailors, and from the river the sounds of the famed Eton Boating Song. Because this is the school's gala day, Old Etonians the world over celebrate it with alumni dinners. In India one might travel 1,000 miles and dine with a score of local governors, all Old Etonians, wearing cravats of black striped with pale blue. In Manhattan this month 20 Old Etonians assembled in honor of Speech...
...Founded in 1787 by Thomas Lord, a Yorkshire ground bowler, Lord's is the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club, world arbiter. fAt the first Eton-Harrow match in 1801, Bowler Tom Loyg beat Harrow in one inning, caught cold forthwith and died...
...Famed young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...