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...Downs was suddenly cut short by the instantaneous and unexplained death of one of the horses attached to his carriage. The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road. The other horses snorted, plunged, backed, tangled up the harness. Aghast at the possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with relief at the news that he seemed "none the worse for being badly shaken...
...most holy and most happy, who is the arbiter of heaven and the Lord of earth . . . the master of the universe, the father of the kings, the light of the world" (Rome...
...London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?was thrown heavily as his horse fell into the second...
...Heber Howe Jr. was for 20 years a master at Middlesex School and has coached Harvard crews. In 1923 he founded and headed an elementary boarding school at Belmont Hills (suburb of Boston). His forte is athletics, and he lays down a 14-point code intended to simplify scholastic athletics, moderate their hotly competitive spirit, keep them within each school's own walls...
...There are in the U. S. no twin peaks of secondary education like Eton and Harrow, whereon hang all the pedagogical law and whose masters are the prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system...