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...Harrovians are still able to take such heterodoxy-from Winston Churchill. He is, after all, an Old Harrovian himself, a present day "Glory on the Hill." Harrow's Headmaster A. Paul Boissier writes that he has been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing if he wishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glory on the Hill | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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