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Incidentally, the Englishmen should get some kind of cheer. They brought over their tiny cars knowing they would be hopelessly outclassed, and drove a good steady sporting race. They also provided the prize sound effects of the day, making it sound like a real motor race. The opinion has been expressed that we should do as is generally done in Europe by providing a separate class for tiny engines or by giving them some sort of handicap...
...general view that "the university is mainly a place of education for young men just before they enter upon life and should confine its whole administration to this practical aim." (Please note the word "practical"!) "We are confident," the article continues, "that this view is the one from which Englishmen in general regard the universities. It is a growing subject of discontent among the public that the tutors and professors of both Oxford and Cambridge are becoming more and more absorbed in their own scientific pursuits." And these remarks at the time when the two ancient universi...
...good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties to which he belonged, Gladstone's and Balfour's, and each time emerged greater than before. His platform was social reform for poor Englishmen, confederation and preferential tariffs for the Empire and, internationally, an understanding between Britain, the U. S. and Germany. Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their heritage...
...Your frontier is our frontier! . . . One of the realities of which my British compatriots sometimes lose sight is that friendship between Britain and France is not a question of sentiment or even of choice. There still are today many Englishmen who are so blind in their prejudices that they sincerely believe Britain entered the War from sheer kindness of heart, solely in order to aid her friends, the French. We entered the War because our vital interests were at stake and because our lives were endangered. We must stand together in a defense of our common civilization against barbarism...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...