Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
Boys Will Beat Boys
By Neal Ascherson
The Old School Tie: The Phenomenon of the English Public School
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Viking, 480 pp., $17.95
I once visited the remains of the camp at Auschwitz with a party of British journalists. Afterward we continued our journey in total silence. Our Polish guide, also speechless, passed around a bottle of Georgian cognac as the car droned on across that greenish-gray Silesian plain. Some twenty minutes went by. Then one of us stretched his arms, like a man wakening from an uncomfortable dream, and drawled: 'I was never so glad to leave anywhere since I left my public school.'
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