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More men are engaging in informal intramural athletics in Harvard than ever before, it is shown by the statistics gathered by Wadsworth House in a surrey, conducted on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. This surrey included Hemenway Gymnasium, the Big Tree Swimming Pool, the University Squash Courts, and the Freshman Athletic Building...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...
...international meet has been plannel to take place at Stanford Bridge, Surrey, England, where Harold, the ultimate Saxon, took the measure of the Northmen...
Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
...different are the true Romany gypsies still to be found in England. The large attendance at Surrey's first day of gypsy school suggested that the encampment chosen was one of several Romany bands usually to be found in Kent, Devonshire, Surrey, Berkshire or Buckinghamshire from late March on, after wintering on the Continent or in London. One pater familias or headman, Tombino, is typical of his fellows. Tombino raises a strain of horses that command top prices at any county fair in the kingdom. He moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies...