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Recently a boosters' club known as the "Spartan Foundation" loyally raised $55,000 to disburse among deserving Michigan State athletes, mainly footballers. When the news came out, Michigan State, which had just been admitted to full-fledged Big Ten membership, was promptly put on probation by the conference. This fall, having wiped the probationary slate almost clean by acceptably accounting for all but $5,200, Michigan State has settled down to some solid new objectives...
Massachusetts' exclusive Groton School believes that what its boys need most is religion, sportsmanship and selfdiscipline. The prep school's formula is Spartan: up at "bell" (6:45 a.m.), cold showers, dark suits on Sundays, chapel (Episcopal) every morning, black marks (which have to be made up through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths...
...curriculum has kept pace with other public schools, Christ's Hospital still gives a heavy dose of the classics. No matter how dull a boy is, he may stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year...
...wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness of the housing situation, he decided to suffer such inconveniences in Spartan silence...
...Assembly able even to agree on a new cabinet, and then it was stuffed with men who had been rejected once, twice, or three times before. With rare exceptions, French politics is a machinery of blocs, not individuals, of party regulars more interested in Gallic theories than in Spartan responsibilities...