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Tom Brown (search for this): chapter 17
Chapter 17: English and American gentlemen
A report is going the rounds of the newspapers-and may, nevertheless, be true-that some Cornell University students were ruled out from rowing in the Henley regatta because they had crossed the ocean in a cattle-steamer; and had therefore earned money by the work of their hands.
The college oarsmen, it was stated, must be gentlemen, and no gentleman could have worked with his hands.
The rumor looks a little improbable, because in Tom Brown at Rugby, written nearly half a century ago, a college crew is described as being saved by the rowing of a plebeian student, who had, it is to be presumed, done some manual labor.
If, however, the tale be true, it points to a difference, still insurmountable, between the English and American students.
Even in circles of inherited wealth in this country it is not at all uncommon for a young man who is to enter upon manufacturing or mining or railroad business to begin himself at the foundation, wo
Walter Scott (search for this): chapter 17
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