Word: englishmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have to compete with Cornish miners, Lancashire navies and Irish peasants...
...marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation of students, by and for which the university was founded and endowed. But however beautiful this plan may seem, and notwithstanding the enormous sums devoted to it, in the opinion of all unprejudiced Englishmen it does but little for science; manifestly because most of these young men, although they are the pick of the students, and in the most favorable conditions possible for scientific work, have in their student career not come sufficiently in contact with the living spirit of inquiry, to work...
...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...