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...building like Massachusetts and the temperature without is but a little above zero, the warmth of the room is hardly suitable for an examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another man who has the opportunity of walking about and thus preventing his limbs from becoming stiff with the cold. It is all very well for a proctor to walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn up their coat-collars...
...special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays he drops a bit of autobiography full of interest. "The regular course of studies," he says, "the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we do call...
...wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions, but take service with the great moneyed corporations. There is, in fact, in our time an immense and most unfortunate diversion of the talent of the country away from the administrative service of the government, mainly owing...
...taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well...
...evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly indulged...