"What can you do?
Only French, and book-keeping and `stinks'"-- (the strictly Classical nickname for chemistry).

"You can't put a man into the cricket or football field worth his salt; your houses are rowdy; your men do nothing at the University; two out of three of you are not even gentlemen." Whereupon the Moderns went in desperately for sports, and claimed to be represented in the School clubs.

They maintained that they were as good gentlemen as any who talked Latin and Greek; and to prove it they jingled their money in their trouser-pockets, and asked what the Classics could do in that line.

The Classics could do very little, and fell back on their moral advantages.

By degrees the new side grew in numbers, and made themselves heard rather more definitely.
They put into the field one or two men who could not honestly be denied a place in the School teams; and they began to figure also among the School prefects.