Word: wykehamist
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...Author. Alan Patrick Herbert, 40, was a Wykehamist (went to school at Winchester), so he naturally went on to New College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert...
THERE are many American college papers that rejoice in names which defy the tongue and grate harshly upon the ear; the following are some of the names given to our English contemporaries: Carthusian, Salopian, Cheltonian, Ulula, Wykehamist, Welingtonian, Malvernian, Armachian, Ousel, Elizabethan, Haileyburian, Denstonian, Glenalmond Chronicle, and Rossallian...
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