WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN?
DLL FISHFIFS DEFINITION. % London, Aug. 27. The great educationalist, Dr. H. A. L. Fisher, President of the Board of Education, defined the word “gentleman” at the British Association meeting to-day as signifying men who are “intellectual, modest, hospitable and of open mind, with the gift of self-measurement and self-criticism, possessing innate i consideration for others, a sense of perspective, and power of rising above pettiness, and of preserving equanimity when smaller minds are unquiei, fussy, and .self-consci-ous.” Dr. Fisher said that these qualities naturally nourished when young impressionable minds were brought into contact with the sublime masterpieces of literal lire and the great inilhs of science.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2180, 23 September 1920, Page 1
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110WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2180, 23 September 1920, Page 1
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