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However, the Bender Report admits that there are "strong practical reasons" against doing away with Dudley, and suggests instead that "all upper-class commuters should be assigned to Houses and they should be encouraged to eat in the Houses, whether regularly or occasionally, and to participate fully in the educational and social life of the Houses...
...Although its prestige," he continued, "is considerably higher than that of the public-school teacher, it does not usually attract sons of cultivated upper-class families...
...Although its prestige, especially in the larger centers, is considerably higher than that of the public-school teacher, it does not usually attract sons of cultivated upper-class families. The type of man who is recruited for college teaching and shaped for this end by graduate school training is very likely to have a strong plebeian strain...
...elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh in the chatter of a lesser Coward. What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping-pong ball...
Repeated Questions. Players, faced with bruising schedules against the best college teams in the country, still had to maintain the iron scholastic requirements of the Academy. They were helped, with the Army's full approval, by upper-class tutors. One of these, Cadet Ronald Clough, said that when players he was helping gave him problems to do, he often got the same problems the next day in his own classes...