Word: scotchmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed that a memorial bust of Carlyle be presented to Edinburgh University, of which institution he was an Alumnus and a Lord Rector. Eminent Scotchmen are on the committee which has been formed to carry forward the proposition, Lord Aberdeen being one of them...
...soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates, but in theory the Scotchman - who, be it remembered, is not led away on the subject either by flunkyism or sentiment, or any strong wish that his sons should have an easy time - holds decidedly that they ought to be, that it would be well if they...