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With such immemorial tradition began the 555th year of Winchester College, one of Britain's oldest public schools and the prototype of such others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary...
...Tokyo bureau's Man Friday is an experienced young journalist named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention...
Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...appeal is for $2,500,000 for purposes "other than medical research." That has been amply taken care of by open-handed Lord Nuffield, the most princely Oxford benefactor since William of Wykeham or Henry VIII. Lord Nuffield, who used to run a cycle shop for undergraduates on the High and whose Morris motorcar works in nearby Cowley now make outlying Oxford town resemble a small Detroit, startled Oxford recently by handing over $10,000,000 to realize Sir Farquhar Buzzard's dream of a university medical centre (TIME, Jan. 4). It was also Lord Nuffield who started...
...Thrifty." The library is one of the largest among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics has the crozier of its founder William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, wonderfully wrought in silver gilt and studded with jewels and probably the finest relic of its kind in the world. Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy...