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...fifth edition, the editors could talk about the Rosetta stone; by the eighth, about anesthesia; by the tenth, about appendicitis. As it added subjects, EB also added writers, and such notables as Sir Walter Scott on chivalry and Lord Macaulay on Samuel Johnson were among its authors. Gradually, U.S. scholars also began to contribute (the first, in the 18505: onetime President Edward Everett of Harvard). As U.S. sales increased, Americans began to take a hand in the editing too. Finally, in 1901, two high-powered Americans, Horace E. Hooper and Walter M. Jackson, bought out EB entirely...
...classrooms across the U.S. one day in 1901, close to 1,000 high-school seniors sat down to write in their bluebooks the answers to such questions as: "What are the main lines of Macaulay's comparison of Milton with Dante? . . . Define archon, ephor, demagogue, dicastery, tyrant . . ." These were the first questions, and the boys & girls were the first guinea pigs of a new testing institution: the College Entrance Examination Board...
...Etruscan invader of Macaulay's Horatius at the Bridge...
Finally, after two failures at examinations, he got into the military college at Sandhurst. He passed out proudly, eighth in a class of 150. Sent to Bangalore, in southern India, Churchill became a brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that...
...girl of the '80s read Macaulay and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, carefully refrained from eating between meals (no "pies, lies [or] doughnuts at Wellesley," Founder Durant had warned). By 1900 she wanted to be a Gibson girl, and a few years later, to the horror of her elders, she began sewing in class, missing vesper service and using such unseemly words as "prune," "pill," and "nifty...