ROGER DALTREY (1944- ), MUSICIAN
Daltrey was expelled from Acton County Grammar School in England. “I was an evil little so-and-so,' he remembers, “I didn't fit in.” The headmaster who expelled him commented, “When you have 500 boys in uniform, and one in a teddy boy outfit, no wonder he didn't fit in.'
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-80), AUTHOR
The 18-year-old Flaubert was first in his philosophy class at the College Royal. Nevertheless he led a revolt against a substitute teacher, and when the noisy students were ordered to copy 1,000 lines of poetry as punishment, Flaubert organised a petition in protest. The headmaster was unmoved, and Flaubert and two other boys were expelled.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST (1863-1951), PLUTOCRAT
In 1885, American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was expelled from Harvard, halfway through his junior year. He had given each of his professors a chamber pot adorned with the professor's name and picture.
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