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...most part, no sense of that subtle relation between tutor and student which must exist, if the system is to be at all effective Furthermore, they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship merely apprentice work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they are, and again for the most part...
...white-haired earl sat down at his desk last week and wrote finis to one of the longest and most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed...
...describes as "barbed with shafts against the United States." If there are criticisms to be made, and citizens of both countries realize that there undoubtedly are, they would be better received if addressed directly to the accused person, and not to a friend. The complete isolation which the uninformed Englishman believes that North America suffers has welded its two most important component parts into close sympathy...
...first story, however, an Englishman fights malaria, long before and long afterward, with whiskey. One day his wife finds him lying drunk in bed, "with nothing on but a sarong." She cuts his throat with a Malay sword. In another yarn, an Irishman named Gallagher gets sick with violent, devastating hiccups in mid-Indian ocean, dies-supposedly because his fat Malay mistress had uttered a curse upon him. This incident so profoundly moves one Mrs. Hamlyn (contemplating divorce) that she sits down, writes her husband: "Think kindly of me and be happy, happy, happy." The best part of this story...
...These answers justify the belief that the creed of the ordinary middle-class Englishman is still what might be described as 'common sense' Christianity and has not yet been much affected by the spread of agnosticism...