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...young subaltern, a few years out of Harrow, joins the colonial army on New Year's Eve, 1905. The book, then, is a chronicle of the experiences of an Anglo-Indian Army officer over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said...
...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...
...usual, the latest Mussolini birth occurred at Forli, the rustic farm in Northern Italy where Il Duce always spends his birthday (July 29) and also turns up seasonably to plow, seed, harrow and harvest his grain. Last week he was busy in Rome superintending the national harvest when a punctilious secretary an- nounced: "The child is a daughter, Your Excellency...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...