half-scholar

Updated: June 27, 2025

It is this smack and suggestion of antiquity, of unnumbered such occasions in the misty past, when the student was half-scholar and half-ruffian, which make the permitted license of to-day not only tolerable, but in a sense even venerable.

A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life