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Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
Honor Balfour cabled: "This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change...
...schools. For several reels, while the camera conscientiously explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public-school system, with a stiff upper lip and an upper-class accent. Both upper & lower social classes, presumably, have learned a lot in the process...
Employment: The Committee has recommended there be closer coordination between the work of the Scholarship Office and the Student Employment Office. We have begun a search for part-time jobs within the University which can be assigned to undergraduates. It seems certain that during its summer meetings on upper-class scholarship applications, the Scholarship Committee will recommend a list of upperclassmen to receive special consideration in the assignment of jobs by the Student Employment Office...
...belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...