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...wilderness of Vancouver Island, B.C., Lonsdale began with six boys. Today Shawnigan Lake School has 100 boys and 27 masters. One-third of the pupils come from the western U.S. They are easily distinguishable when they return home by their habit of sirring adults and by their preference for "rugger" and cricket. Shawnigan Lake's spartan Tudor dormitories, school ties, daily chapel and iron discipline are still modeled after the England Lonsdale knew 35 years...
...eastern Canada's Big Four Union-Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Rough Riders-reputedly ranged from $50 to $150 a game, with some players getting from $1,500 to $5,000 a season. In spite of the Revenue Department's ruling, Canada's rugger players seemed strictly professional...
Walt W. Rostow (Yale '36) was a Rhodes Scholar just before the war. He enlivened many an Oxford sherry party by banging out a syncopated protest of his own composition (Claustrophobia Blues) on the piano. When not busy harmonizing or playing rugger for Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later...
They got to saying "rather" and "actually" and succumbed to the English habit of afternoon tea-though without altering their G.I. dinner time, so that 5:30 dinner followed 4 o'clock tea with indecent and indigestible haste. They went punting on the Cam, played rugger with Cantabrigians (and lost), American football (and won), debated in the Cambridge Union Society and acted in the Amateur Dramatic Club...
...Alexander Fleming was born (1881) in Darvel, in Ayrshire, the son of a farmer. He went to St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, largely because it won the Rugger cup and had had a championship swimming team the year before. (Dr. Fleming still loves to swim. His other hobby is rifle shooting.) When he graduated in 1908, he took honors in physiology, pharmacology, medicine, pathology, forensic medicine and hygiene, received the University Gold Medal...