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...Eton Boating Song
...give an added regal polish, there were lessons in French (from a French countess), German, art, and dancing. As time went on, the Vice-Provost of Eton, erudite Clarence Henry Kennett ("Shee-Kay") Marten (later knighted and promoted to Provost), was called in to brush up the Princess' constitutional history...
From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...
Blunden defends Shelley's first efforts at "Gothic" romances (he wrote several at Eton and Oxford) as honest, would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...
Under Miss Tanner "the girls' Eton" was more interested in career-mindedness than muscle. The headmistress thought that "every woman should earn her place in the world, and should be able to give back in some measure all the world gives her." She encouraged Roedean girls to go on to a university (one in eight does, a high average in England), was pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special...