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TIME, Jan. 20 quotes the Duke of Wellington as having said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. . . . According to Lyte's History of Eton College, the only record of any remark of this kind is contained in a contemporary account . . . : "He looked into the garden and asked what had become of the broad ditch over which he used often to leap. He said: 'I really believe I owe my spirit of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden...
...Like most famed sayings, Wellington's gives a slight toehold to apocryphists. But TIME will continue to credit Wellington with the saying unless 1) somebody can prove that he did not say it, or 2) that the saying is false to the spirit it symbolized...
Captain Don Marvin, playing the number five slot, whipped Princeton's Wellington, in what Barnaby called, "the best win I can remember for Don." Decker Orr and Sandy Parker easily won their sixth and seventh place matches...
...splendor of its full-dress regalia (see cut) is produced by a combination of Wellington boots, buckskin breeches, blue blouses with silver buttons, yards of braid, bearskin-topped helmets. For the annual formal banquets in its Armory, the Troop (now Troop A, 104th Reconnaissance Regiment) has its own china and silver (made for its 100th anniversary in 1874), adorned with its helmet and sabretache...
Eton College (prep school), on whose playing fields the Battle of Waterloo was said (by the Duke of Wellington) to have been won, was bombed last month. When Etonians explored the ruins, they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...