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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Boys of Muirtown, do you see those tablets?" and Bulldog pointed to the lists in gold of the former pupils who had distinguished themselves over the world prizemen, soldiers, travellers, writers, preachers, lawyers, doctors. "It's a grand roll, and an honour to have a place in it, and there are two new names to be added.
"Losh, Drumsheugh, be quiet, or ye'll dae the laddie an injury," said Domsie, with genuine alarm. "We maunna mention prizes, and first is fair madness, A certificate of honour now, that will be aboot it, may be next to the prizemen." Coming home from market he might open his heart. "George 'ill be amang the first sax, or my name is no Jamieson," but generally he prophesied a moderate success.
I liked the Public Orator, who seemed to me to be introducing the people who were to receive honorary degrees to the Vice-Chuggins, and I was sorry for the University prizemen, who wore evening dress and had to read out their prize poems and things.
The photograph I enclose is from the group of the University Rifle Club prizemen, and represents him as he was when at the College. Hi am, your obedient servant, Amos Boulter. "The other letter," continued Gould in a glow of triumph, "is from the porter, and won't take long to read.
There we have what perhaps could not have existed, what certainly did not exist twenty years ago a school of a hundred men or more, taught for the last eight years gratuitously by men of the highest attainments in the University; by a dean to whom, I believe, the success of the attempt is mainly owing; by professors, tutors, prizemen, men who are now head-masters of public schools, who have given freely to their fellow-men knowledge which has cost them large sums of money and the heavy labour of years.
Try if you can count upon your fingers the men of genius among the prizemen of those hundred years. In the first place, no deliberate effort of schoolmaster or administrator can replace the miracles of chance which produce great men: of all the mysteries of generation, this most defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. Yet this is precisely what France is doing.
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