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Lamb then notes the well-known fact that Arthur Wellesley's real remark was far less martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
...tautology that took the U.S. back three decades to New England-born President Calvin Coolidge's remark: "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results...
...with Cromwell, or with Dutch William. We were here." He was a courtly, gentle man who daily fed the pigeons outside his Dublin house and often cut out puppets for children. "He always had a new joke to tell," says Irish Artist Norah McGuiness, "and never made a commonplace remark. He lived in a different world, and I wish I could have entered...
After one such evening, Harold asks Barbara, "Do I imagine it or is it true that when they speak of the Nazis-the very next sentence is invariably some quite disconnected remark about Americans...
This last remark from the report points up its major difficulty, one that may well keep it from gaining all the credence it should in official circles. Almost freakishly short, the report neglects to mention that nearly 80 per cent of Soph Standing students polled earlier this year favored retention of the program. Its conclusions are certainly not supported by the poll, and the report makes little attempt to justify this. Thus, while it seems logical that everyone should live in the Yard, experience Physical Training, and spend a year before deciding what to concentrate in, the fact that...