Some Summer Days Abroad

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill RUGBY AND COVENTRY. WE were hastening to Coventry, when, by a lucky mishap, we found ourselves at Rugby with half-an-hour to wait. Memories of Dickens's "Mugby Junction" faded away from mind, as there came full and strong to our recollection the name and fame of Thomas Arnold, that wonder-working Head-Master of Rugby, whose noble life and manly Christian teachings are reproduced in the lives of those who hung upon the truths he taug'.it while living, or are in tuin transmitting their master'sword and work to others, now that he has passed away. And so we saw with profound interest the quadrangles familiar to all readers of "Tom Brown," with the "boys" in their cricketing or boating costumes, hurrying to or from the play grounds or their rooms, and then looked in upon the class-rooms, dormitories, cabinets and library, all far from presenting that "spick an.l span" appearance which our higher schools afford, but i.earing evident traces of the presence and pranks of veritable boys. On we went through halls and " quads" to the beautiful school chapel, which, from the very cross at the top of the building, on which the great Head-Master was wont to dwell in his sermons to his pupils, as symbol of the end and aim of Christian education, to the simple stone under the altar, as it stood before the ohapel was enlarged, which marked the resting place of Thomas Arnold, was filled with memories' of the life-work, and proofs of the far-reaching influence, of this great-hearted Christian teacher. We pa, sed from this beautiful chapel, turning reverently as we left, to see the massive altar-cros shining forth amidst the gloom of fading day, and were soon in the almost-sacred study where Dr. Arnold was accustomed to meet the "sixth form," and where amidst the folios, quartos and oct...

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