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...dinner in Eliot House last night, Finley informed his boys of the appointment, and cried "Floreat domus de Eliot" (Let Eliot House bloom). Heimert answered, "Following Master Finley will be like getting into the wake of the Queen Elizabeth in a rowboat." They then sat down with a bottle of Italian champagne...
...House crew had won an initial victory at Henley, the oarsmen received a telegram from the Master: "Hurra for brilliant prothetic start." Like a gracious Alfred Hitchcock, Finley plays a cameo role in every House Christmas' production. He always concludes the evening's festivities with a ritualistic invocation: Floreat domus de Eliot...
...domus nova...
Last week many Old Harrovians fondly grunted Harrow's Stet Fortuna Domus as they leafed through just the kind of book that Old Harrovians like. Put together by other Old Harrovians, bound in deep Harrovian blue, it was called Winston Churchill and Harrow, Memories of the Prime Minister's Schooldays...
...been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing if he wishes...