Monday, Aug. 28, 1933
Four Masters
When the black-jacketed, long-trousered schoolboys of Eton College gather again this autumn after their seven-week Long Vacation, some of their first chatterings will be about the jolly bad luck that four of their masters had last week. Mountain-climbing in Switzerland were House-Masters H. E. Howson, E. V. Slater, E. W. Powell (an Oxford Blue, onetime winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls), and Assistant Master C. R. White-Thomson, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely. Roped together, they were toiling up dangerous Mt. Roseg, near Pontresina. When they did not return on schedule searchers went out, found the four at the foot of a 400-ft. precipice, all quite dead.
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