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...students at Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Pomeroy remarked that argumentative discussion and original journalism are not as much in evidence in America as in England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster...
...proctor. One should not be too hard on the proctor; his intimate knowledge of the seamy side of human nature inevitably makes him suspicious, careful even cautious. Rather should one seek to emulate the open-handed benignity of the students, who while no doubt believing implicitly that every Englishman's home is his castle, prefer to leave the drawbridge down and the portcullis...
...story of the play is about South Africa. The hero is an Englishman. He left England because of a woman, but meets her again in Africa. But now he is the Chief of a tribe of pigmies. Their love is revived, but in the last act the woman is pierced by the spear of a pigmy...
Among the prominents listed as backers is George Bernard Shaw. One scarcely thinks of the satirical Irishman-Englishman as a patron, but it will be recalled that early in his career he functioned as a music critic. And one of his first successful books was The Perfect Wagnerite with its characteristically Shavian appreciations of the music of the great Richard...
...Chesterton: "Peggy O'Neil, American actress, wrote a letter to a London newspaper asserting that the Englishman's breakfast of bacon and eggs reduces the originality of his outlook. She pleaded for more fruit. Said I: 'If there is anything to justify armed assault on the United States it is their attempt to introduce iced water and fresh fruit in bulk to the English breakfast table...