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Chauffeur at Groton. Until recently, pace was not the pride of many famed New England boys' boarding schools, which for years had the pretense but not the product of Eton and Harrow. Now they have changed dramatically. By snubbing Social Register dullards and by combing the country for bright recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter...
...Though no Prime Minister in modern times has been a bachelor. Of 43 men who have held the office, 26 (unlike Heath) went to Eton or Harrow; 34, like Heath, went to Oxford...
...showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
Even through the war years, Sir Winston Churchill always made his annual appearance at his old school of Harrow to be acclaimed as its most honored living Old Boy. His only absence since 1940 came four years ago, when he was downed by a bad cold. Some 650 young Harrovians last week serenaded him as is the custom, once again brought a proud smile to Sir Winston's face as they sang the Latin words of May Fortune Stay with the House, including the line, "Churchill's name shall win again...