The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffiel...d grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you can have a couple of seconds to rest in. I mean seconds. You have about two seconds to wait while the blanker is on the fe...lt drawing the moisture out. You can stand and relax those two seconds--three seconds at most. You wish you didn't have to work in a factory. When it's all you know what to do, that's what you do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory manage...ment.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,... Steel-true and blade-straight The great artificer Made my mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worst when a little suspicious; ...then they watch you as though you were a young rattle-snake, to be killed when convenient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »