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"In what way?" asked the Polytechnic student, angrily. Sanine took no notice of him, but, turning to Yourii, said: "Do you really believe that you can get a conception of life from any book?" "Most certainly I do," replied Yourii, in a tone of surprise. "Then you are wrong," said Sanine.
Sterling's account of this Polytechnic gala still remains, in three Letters to his Father, which, omitting the extraneous portions, I will give in one, as a piece worth reading among those still-life pictures: "To Edward Sterling, Esq., Knightsbridge, London. "FALMOUTH, 10th August, 1841.
Quite wrong-headed; you know, violently reactionary but thoroughly able. And he's evidently disposed to make capital out of this stuff of ours. Takes a very emphatic line. Talks of our proposal to use it in the elementary schools " "Our proposal to use it in the elementary schools!" "I said something about that the other day quite in passing little affair at a Polytechnic.
He had at once declared for a military life, and had in consequence studied hard, passed brilliantly through the Polytechnic School, and left it as sub-lieutenant of the 53d of the line. For a year he had held this rank, and expected promotion on the first vacancy.
The Polytechnic School, and the search for x, in which my uncle trained me, developed very inquisitive instincts in me. I ended by acquiring a taste for transcendental ideas. This taste is at least worth as much as that for angling.
As I was about setting off to undergo the examination for admission at the Polytechnic School, my father ventured to ask him whether he could not recommend me to M. Monge.
In 1869, when I was about twenty-three years old, I sent a couple of sonnets to the revived Putnam's Magazine. At that period I had no intention of becoming a professional writer: I was studying civil engineering at the Polytechnic School in Dresden, Saxony. Years before, I had received parental warnings unnecessary, as I thought against writing for a living.
But if she believes me when it is time to choose one, she will prefer a man remarkable for his intelligence, and will give him her fortune as a stepping-stone to raise him as high as she chooses him to go." Inwardly she was thinking of Pierre Delarue, who had just taken honors at the Polytechnic school, and who seemed to have a brilliant career before him.
Happily, the majority of Dutch engineers are saved by the Polytechnic School, where they have about the same liberty as undergraduates at the Universities to go their own way.
You would never have known, to see him sitting there, that John Randall Fulleymore Ransome was a leader in Section I of the London Polytechnic Gymnasium. So far, in his way, he testified, he bore his torch.
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