At Harrow, red-headed young Winston Churchill was last boy in the "third fourth" (the lowest division of the lowest form) for three times as long as any boy in the school. It took him three tries to nudge his way into Sandhurst. At 24, an Army lieutenant, he applied for Oxford, gave up when the examiner demanded a schoolboy's Greek irregular verbs from a British regular officer.
An older, wiser Churchill, in the scarlet robe of an (honorary) Oxford Doctor of Civil Laws, last week added two more honorary degrees to his now considerable string. The newest: a Doctor of Laws from...
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