OUNCE OF TIE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 5

OUNCE OF TIE.

WORTH TON OF BATON. OLD SCHOOL IMPORTANT. WO LAUGHING MATTER. (Special.—By Air MaH.) LOXTJOX, August 5. The old school tie is no laughing matter, according to Professor John Hilton. He told the Liberal Summer ; School at Cambridge to-day:— '"The odds against a council schoolboy ' getting into one of the reserved stalls ;of life are a thousand to one. "To get there you must have started 'right. Von must have been at the right I school and be entitled through life to i wear the right school tie. "You may joke about the old school , : tie. but he who laughs last laughs best, |an<l the old school tie has the last laugh . of all. for it carries its wearer into posijtions for which a man with the wrong tie stands about as much chance a& a. man without a shirt. "The rule is the old school tie for the old school post." He pointed out that 52 of our 56 bishops and 20 of our 21 Cabinet Ministers had been to public schools. "Quite a college reunion every time I! there is a Cabinet meeting," he comI mented. ! "Napoleon is said to have stated that every soldier had a marshal's baton in J his knapsack. i "We can make the same boast regard- ', ing all our professions, and everything ' would be fair and above board were it 'inot that a select few, besides having the 1 (marshal's baton in their knapsack, also Hwent to the marshal's old school, were • jborn into the marshal's set and have t been entered for the marshal's club. » "An ounce of tie is worth a ton of -1 baton." tj Professor Hilton said in the universi- "'; ties as a whole 18 per cent of the underojgraduates had come from the elementary cjschools, and at Oxford and Cambridge jouly 11 i>er cent.