"Rugby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Balliol is due to the fact that the college awoke more rapidly from the sleep of the eighteenth century than most of Oxford, and as early as 1828 threw open its scholarships to free competition. Hence even as early as the time of Dr. Arnold at Rugby, a "Balliol scholarship" had become "the blue riband of public-school education." It has now passed into popular phraseology to such an extent that lady novelists, unversed in academic niceties, confer a "Balliol scholarship" on their heroes, even ...
— The Charm of Oxford • J. Wells
... At Rugby he lit a second cigarette and commented on the warmth of the night to an elderly gentleman who entered the carriage from the corridor. The elderly gentleman was uncommunicative and merely growled in reply. Mannix offered him a match. The gentleman ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... of the many other equally wonderful plants may be mentioned the "stony wood," which is thus described by Gerarde:—"Being at Rugby, about such time as our fantastic people did with great concourse and multitudes repair and run headlong unto the sacred wells of Newnam Regis, in the edge of Warwickshire, as unto the Waters of Life, which could cure all diseases." He visited these healing-wells, ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... I say Uppingham? Of course, I mean Rugby, you know, Rugby. One's always mixing the two up, ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... These Local Examinations subjected the girls to precisely the same examinations as the boys, but the subjects in which both boys and girls were examined did not follow the precise curriculum of Eton, Harrow, and Rugby; that is, the university, in making up its list of subjects for examination, instead of adapting itself to the long established lines of study for boys, conformed rather to the modern opinion in regard to the ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett
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