Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...salary will ordinarily range from $1200 or $1500 a year to $7000 or $8000. No one knows exactly what the income of a successful house or head master is, for he is paid not a salary by a board of trustees, but in fees and perquisites. But well-informed Englishmen credit the head master of Eton with an income of $15,000 a year, and probably it is not less in the case of the head master at Rugby...
...must be an astonishing reflection to the younger generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...
...March 8, in the Oxford Sports, Mr. B. R. Wise, Queen's, ran a mile in 4 min 27 2-5 sees., or about 10 seconds better than the best American amateur record. There is no reason whatsoever for the English records to surpass ours thus, except that the Englishmen think of competing in time to allow themselves due preparation, and it is sincerely to be hoped that our own Intercollegiate this year will prove that American colleges are not behind the English in the active interest taken in athletics...
...speaking of Harvard's chair of Chinese, the London Telegraph mentions the great need of a professor of the language in England. It seems that a large number of Englishmen would jump at such a chance of learning Chinese. Professor Ko cannot be spared here at present; but if these Englishmen would enter Harvard, he would no doubt be willing to increase the size of his elective...