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Updated: June 9, 2025
The son of the millionaire and of the laborer, the college-bred man and the worker forced to earn his living from early youth, were to march side by side in the ranks and practice marksmanship and trench digging together. Great Britain and France had democratized their armies; the United States did the same.
But the dead man's chair was occupied by young Mr. Ryder, adopted son of the new proprietor of the mansion; and before him stood Alice, with her dark eyes fixed on the table. "There must have been something in it, Joe, believe me. Did you never hear your father speak of mine?" "Never." "But you say he was college-bred, and born a gentleman, and in his youth he must have had many friends."
Every business-man knows that a business-college training is of very little account in enabling one to fight the battle of life, and that college-bred men have a great advantage even in fields where mere education is a secondary matter.
Cards are prohibited. The questions I asked were freely answered; and all the people in one way or another came under my eye. Some of them have the hard features of toil-worn New England farmers; others look like the average business-men of our country towns or inland cities; others are students, and there are a number of college-bred men in the community.
Our typical men of wealth, if they do not found a college, will at least single out some college or university on which to lavish legacies or gifts. All the more so, perhaps, if they are not college-bred men themselves. Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, Clark University, are splendid examples of this rule.
"The man wanted is Henry Brownell, a cashier of a bank in Waltham, Mass., thirty-five years of age, smooth-shaven, college-bred, speaking with a marked New England accent, and and with other marks that fit Fearing like the cover on a book. The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months. They are positive he is on the coast of Africa.
I thank the Lord I'm not as serious as you, Graveyard. But if you want to air your theory, I'll lend you my ears, for friendship's sake. I don't promise to remember." Peter puffed his cigar for a moment "I sometimes conclude," he said, "that the people who are most in need of education, are the college-bred men.
"Why, sure," exclaimed Hardy, brushing aside any college-bred scruples, "only don't call me Rough House they might get the idea that I was on the fight. But you don't need to get scared of Rufus it's just another way of saying Red.
His father was a farmer, but a man of considerable cultivation, though not college-bred his last request on his death-bed was that Phil should be sent to college a man who made experiments in improving agriculture and the breed of cattle and horses, read papers now and then on topics of social and political reform, and was the only farmer in all the hill towns who had what might be called a library.
He instances a brahman, one of his own subordinates, college-bred and English-speaking, who, when away from home with his superior officer, had to cook his food for himself, because the brahman servant he had with him was of a lower division than his own, and he could not afford to hire a man of his own status among brahmans."
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