Eton College Documentary (1991) Part 2 of 2

as far as I'm concerned the most useful 25 minutes of my day as a meeting this afternoon I'm proposing to raise that's right no this is official might I remind heads of departments that we have the head of departments meeting at 2:15 this afternoon in the Millington Drake room I've been talking with the headmaster of Winchester about the eaton Winchester match which as you know has taken place at Winchester their request for several years now because it's their festive day they would not like to revert to the old system whereby we play home-and-away on alternate years and talking of Hermann Dawei the Headmaster's conference is in Aberdeen this year and I should be way on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week as far as the boys are concerned they know that there is one moment in the day to when they can't find any master with whom they hope may have a moment of business and if they gather on the pavement outside square Hall will come through those doors very very very quickly so it's a very useful thing for bars as well the boys I'm told believed that the Masters have a sipper attic time in chambers either drinking port or sherry I'm afraid that that's absolutely untrue it's all much more mundane master simply circulate around and by long tradition if you want to speak from master you grab the sleeve of gown which has a great establishes your place in the queue and occasionally across you'll see one master with somebody holding on to his gun and somebody else holding on to the gun of the other master rather quaint mr. name sir and the body box with the most money yes she's right we gone into your doctor boy and it's been spotless yeah and have you heard anything from the head man no not yet no I'm actually probably right back to you okay and what do we do about getting people to type out yeah well last guy last heart we had on on the job all the time let me actually pay them to do it as well right after the terms two terms of negotiation okay I think James Paul knows how to use one of the word processors you could ask him Chloe makes it Jay okay you decide in your last time yeah you're being taken down fine but how much did you have up I don't quite feel something the Guilford was looking everywhere 15 minutes traveling probably enjoyed that's what sort of thing you're into I guess huh do you think I'll tell them all that if the head rises room before they take them all down I don't know I'll talk to him about it and that represents adultery about to happen now the implication there is is it raw wrong heterosexual sex when you come to this side you get the alternative which is effeminacy a varying kinds so you have the castrato singer a unit singing away the compliment it looks like there's trouble over Tom's pestis is somebody's been taking him down and he's now on the bill for it that means he's got to go and see the headmaster beauty of a boy's voice on the power man Chappell has always been important at Eton indeed when Henry the sixth founded the school the chapel was every bit as much in his mind as the provision of education for seventy scholars he was going to have trained to become leaders in church and state it's still important today I won't for one-minute pretend that all Italians are godly any more than other young people some are some fairly hostile to religion the vast majority are prepared to be persuaded Remembrance Sunday is a big occasion at Eton it's one of those occasions where the whole community comes together I'm not is it - [ __ ] five come on let's go God the number what number you son jointly six six I'm the six in it was number five okay listening when I give you go what I want you to do is I want you to go in between the Land Rover and this blue van here touch the wall to the rear over there and what you formed up or as you are stood on your chair in the classroom you know where that is last person twenty press-ups stand by up touch that wall first thanks guys three what smile it's not people think there's an eating type but that's not really true there's two types of Italian if anything there's no sort of meathead macho sport guy who goes to tap and joins the Cadet Force and there's the arty type who wouldn't be seen dead on the playing field and of course some people are combination of both but not me I like a wash when you have that blue wash they've been the blue was too blue I feel okay and then I've tried the plain white and that in words I'm just seeing what the place looks like an evil energy that I might move from a blue on the outside into a brown what you think texture or white I think you need texture of some kind cuz a cold color to emphasize the warmth of this what do you mean by putting up a poster like that you actually think that's the right thing to do um not really I know I know it's bad and I know is wrong with me without very schools and stuff and um but it was really the only way of getting attention for the magazine and if your magazine going to be as similar to the poster that you put up then a not at all well aren't you then I guilty of nothing else of false pretenses and trying to pretend to the school you're publishing a magazine advertised by nudes um the only way to get people to subscribe is to put out a risque advertising campaign and really it's simply quite unacceptable we've plastered this all over every public place in eating it's supposed to describe to me our various people that people as obscene or pornographic and even if it's not that it's certainly a very poor taste you're broken innumerable school rules in putting up your poster what I'm more worried about and I think this probably means the end of the arts review by more worried about is you don't seem to acknowledge that that poster was unacceptable you mainly say that you think for some reason he would inspire more people to subscribe he doesn't him to me that you in the least mind about it I know we do he was in it we just did it to get people to notice it so they knew that it was gonna be a different type of magazine we didn't foresee that so many people would be offended because I mean it's not pornographic and that's what's pornographic or not is absolutely unacceptable there's no F yeah we were wronged I mean we have I'm not claiming the whip I'm not trying to justify myself we did we did wrong I mean we we committed something that we wanted out to do well is there any reason do you think why the Arts Review should continue so we can redeem ourselves I space well I'm that's credibly there that's quite a good answer I don't I think I've got to do I meant to give you some chores to do for the various school rules that you've broken I'm going to accept slightly against my better judgment that this is a mistake you're not going to repeat but I am going to say this that this first edition of the arts review is the arts review on probation and if it's not as good an edition as it ought to be and in particular if you step out of line in any silly way and I think you can take it that that is unfortunately the end of the arts review dear headmaster I would just like to apologize for my advertising campaign for the Anthropy I spoke with the Lerma Australia today and we both agreed that it was not only wrong on my part but a pretty stupid thing to do anyway considering the timing of it I had not realized that people would actually be offended by my posters and so I was very naive not to foresee that Tom what happen with the headmaster tonight right now you flashed it up means that it's fine sir paster do I take it that your magazines gonna be pornography say it why did you do ya see saying sorry if it's not good money I said we're on probation good no um I suppose Owen is really gonna be so you're gonna have to be good into the center any word that's yeah I know we got an article on are you the perfect lover which I do oh I'm not writing that but it's gonna be one of those if your scores from if you scored from Luke 2/3 please ban yourself a deadlock to Connie Kim as Caputo no Ishaan además he torre de aqui mas come - no hito to its mess osaka nemo hikmah cinema he must come but rational interpretation was tails a new Swedish name each to it WT ce SE hace frío Joe Moller GZ Cazalas para - Nicole Akira without a script - stinky Siddhartha's Carsten yo that's very nice ok anything that obviously you can see what it's about yeah says you're not a sailor um I'm dug into the zone of the Gulf but sometimes you call it CLU so what is the actual work is it CLE no the word is xagliv that's the nominative that is the genitive case because Russian as you know is an inflected language so this is the zone of the Gulf so if you hear a familiar word with an unfamiliar ending now you know why it changes it's because it's in a different case okay let's go on then - I'm a bit of a lefty and in reading that's a fairly rare thing although I think that the left-wing component is is growing slightly people regard me as a bit of a bit of a maverick here I set up a recently a society called the discussion forum we have a number of current affairs societies here which invite a speaker down to give a lecture and then answer questions and special thing about the discussion forum is that invites three or four experts in a particular field I'm arranging one at the moment on the Gulf crisis I really enjoy it because I'm interested in current affairs and I just like the the fun of organizing something like this sort of chairing it it's been a bit of a megalomaniac hello my name is Pierce today and I'd like to welcome you to the 11th edition of the Eton news you've bought the badges seen the posters read the news heard the new sorry all right last one hopefully hopefully until we get it off the road hello my name's piers today and I'd like to welcome you to the 11th edition of the Eton news you've bought the badges seen posters read the newspapers heard the news the Gulf crisis Saddam Hussein Iraq Kuwait but what exactly is it all about in mid-september a number of people involved met at the discussion forum to consider the crisis we took our cameras along hoping for an exclusive tonight's speakers our Sheikh Mohammed Al Sabah of who eight who is at the moment sir based at the Embassy in London so John Moberly former ambassador to Iraq and to Jordan who is it and he was also a political officer in Kuwait in the 50s he currently works at the Royal Institute of International Relations dr. Peter Slug lit his lecturer in modern Middle Eastern history at Durham University and mr. Rafi Sofia is PLO representative in the United Kingdom he's just joined it does sometimes strike me that you know we are a privileged place and we do get a lot of special things that that people in other schools around the country can't get I mean not only because of merit but also because of parental wealth I have problems with that I'm not sure whether it's whether it's totally morally right if I could just mr. Serbian I see that the situation in Palestine Palestine that doesn't exist is similar to the one in Kuwait and I agree that the West shouldn't have a set of double standards but I can't see that it has any direct bearing on the Kuwaiti crisis to that future not moving whoa we should provide some way out because otherwise in the light of Vietnam fighting about may seem an attractive proposition well I think that it is important that we should we as you is also better matter then learn an editor's articles we have and if you have to remain well it can yes I think it does casserole good point to cut it answers the question as well you I can hardly frankly bed out actually because you've been so second Idol yes I mean I I just gave your miles behind for your work aren't you yes well you've got a total catching up to do have I had your notes uh updated news in there I mean I realize you've got other things to do but honestly we must keep up with it yeah and I'm cutting down the flu all right all right so um Jack have one more extension of my essential oh yeah someone halfway threatened I've done all the note I've done all the notes we have to do today I would buy golf up tomorrow without so we have an appetizer right all right yeah and here's the thing the typical thing about the posters they put up the editors would also like to apologize for any offence caused by their recent advertising campaign which was both flamboyant and mistimed whatever that means this time cuz you were here yeah it wasn't it wasn't quite senior boy in poppers I must write an article about eight he was given the go-ahead as long as he didn't mention sex no illness he wrote it and then the words like condoms were taken out he wasn't allowed to talk about sex eatin boys don't have sex boys do not have so yeah he's been in the holidays it's something we don't think about not living with girls you don't you only see one side of anything and I'm sure it can hinder your sexuality you're conditioned against girls but then I don't know if you back away from that it towards homosexuality then you're even further pushed back into you know you're so crushed in the middle and that like the thing against homosexuality is so much stronger than anything else in this slide you go to you go to the way match or something and you know you have communal showers and all the guys from stole something oh you're getting the communal showers and I have a shower and all the guys from eating sort of standing on the corner with that rugby shorts on go huh it means you there's a massive hang-up about nudity yeah I mean in most other schools well which most other schools don't have going back after my first holidays I wasn't looking forward to that kind of first few days getting sorted out back into the routine and waking up at half the 7:00 but when that's over it's really good fun you just think of what would I be doing if I was at home it would be very boring it's time to knit for us Alice yeah yeah yeah but I am delighted to be once again at Eton this time to celebrate with you an anniversary is so notable but not even the most frivolous Eternian could let it pass without paying it due deference but I dare say that you Italians will be thinking less of those who have gone before you then of the present and future it has always seemed to me that one of the virtues of Ethan system is its determination never to patronize youth nor to underestimate its capacity for invention and imagination because those qualities are given full rein here the rituals can acquire a meaning and the regimentation a soul I still think being here is too far removed from the outside world I wouldn't send my son here but then that's what my father said 25 years ago you hello is that the American Embassy press office young right I'd like to find out an address hello wonder if you have an address

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Length: 24min 40sec (1480 seconds)

Published: Thu May 17 2012