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...college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...
Fixed in many a schoolboy's memory is the fact that 15th Century George Duke of Clarence died in a butt of malmsey (aromatic grape) wine. Sleepy-eyed Abdul Hamil II, Sultan of Turkey, died in Magnesia, not a solution but a town in Asia Minor. At the time of his death (1918), though a prisoner of the "Young Turkish" government he was worth $1,500,000,000, was generally considered Richest Man in the World. Last week the Greek government agreed to pay $50,000,000 to nine of his widows, 13 of his children. Not only...
Though Biographer Ludwig has not modified the outlines of a life known to every U. S. public-schoolboy, he gives many anecdotes and quotations in these readable 489 pages that few Lincoln admirers will mind hearing again; some that may be new to all except Lincoln students. For instance: when Lincoln was captain of a company (which saw no fighting) in the Black Hawk War, he was once at a loss how to get his men through a gate. Said he at last: "This company is dismissed for two minutes, when it will fall in again on the other side...
...schoolboy sextet seems to present formidable opposition. Out of the four games they have played so far this season, they have broken even...
John Henry Newman was born in London in 1801, of well-to-do and cultured parents. He was destined to intellectual struggle and religious leadership. Even as a schoolboy at Dr. Nicholas's Academy for Young Gentlemen, at Ealing, he was considered an impressive speaker, and "was selected to deliver a speech before the Duke of Kent. The boy's voice had just then begun to break, and though he persevered with his speech, it was more like a yodelling performance than a sober oration. The Doctor in some embarrassment . . . explained apologetically, 'His voice is breaking.' 'Ah,' replied the Duke...