chip off the old block

Another dramatized version of 'Goodbye Mr.Chips' was recently featured on Masterpiece Theatre,one of many versions done over the years.But,unlike the other versions this one does attempt to place the characters in the context of social issues affecting Great Britain in the Late Victorian period.
Professor Chip argues for a kinder gentler social system based on individual decency and honor.He is seen struggling to humanize an elite institution designed to brutalized the children of the ruling elite,so that they in turn will be qualified to brutalize others in the course of their future careers as masters of the British Empire.
He does his personal best to impress on the young male students the principles of fair play then sends them out into a world where fair play is a platitude used to cover up what's really going down.
A good book to read if you want to find out what Mr.Chips boys were up to after graduating from Eton or Harrow ,is 'Late Victorian Holocausts' by Mike Davis

"Queen Victoria's favorite poet Lord Lytton,as Viceroy of India,on the occasion of the proclamation of Victoria as Queen Empress of India organized a week-long feast for 68,000 officials,satraps and maharajas:the most colossal and expensive meal in world history.An English journalist later estimated that 100,000 subjects of the Queen-Empress starved to death in Madras and Mysore in the course of Lytton's spectacular ceremonial"
-Mike Davis