Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced their leaders, but after the war it will be found that their day is done." Reason: war taxes will be so heavy that few parents will be able to pay $800 a year for a boy's education. Only way to save such schools as Eton and Harrow, said Sir Cyril, will be for the Government to fill them with scholarship students...
...without the public-school spirit. Cried Laborite H. B. Lees-Smith: "Life in a boarding school is a crowd life, a herd life. . . . This unnatural system has resulted in virtually two nations. The masses, educated in State-controlled day schools, never come into contact with the sheltered lads of Harrow and Eton...