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...Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan, grandnephew of Lord (Horatius at the Bridge) Macaulay, brother of Historian George Macaulay Trevelyan...
Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...
Besides the test matches between England and Australia, the great cricket matches are played between the public schools of Britain?Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Westminster?between counties, or between professional teams. The greatest of all professionals is famed Jack Hobbs, one of the best batsman in cricket, who made 16 centuries last
School Examinations. That examinations be omitted as vicious at secondary schools, was the plea of Headmaster Cyril Norwood of Harrow...
...been rumored that other great schools, including Harrow, are going to follow suit...