...ground that NAPOI.EON for a great part of his life was content with only five hours' sleep, and yet the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Some animals, such as weasels, seemed to be able to dispense with sleep altogether, but their example...

...glaring posters of racing results when London was afloat with wild rumors of a British naval disaster. If the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, evidently there are modern Londoners who believe the Germans will be beaten on the race-course and...

...said to be indissolubly interwoven with the complicated network of our popular life? The well-known saying of the Duke of Wellington that the battle of Waterloo was won upon the playing-fields of Eton has been repeated so often that we are almost sick of hearing it. But...

...desire for success is altogether wrong. Someone has said that if it is true, as commonly reported, that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton it might be said with equal truth that England's numerous blunders and defeats in the Boer War should...

...and many medals and clasps, just one of the men — and there are many of them — who exemplified the saying of the Duke of Wellington, that ' the Battle of Waterloo was won in the playing-fields of Eton.' What will Lord Wolseley say to this ? How many gallant young fellows...

...for statesmen. It trained Chatham, and Fox, and North, and Grenville. The Duke of Wellington declared that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, and his brother, the gentle Lord Wellesley, begged to be laid to rest in the bosom of Eton, that mother...

...your readers to draw what inference you choose from the circumstance." "It is a trite saying, I know, that 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.' How many Etonians are now at the front ? "Altogether over 1,100 in various branches of the service....

...building of strong character by the private schools. The Duke of Wellington is quoted as saying : " The battle of Waterloo was won on the Playing Fields of Eton." How many less sanguinary victories have had their causes back on the fields of Andover, Exeter, and...

...were the effects of slavery in the United States or in our own colonies. The Duke of Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. A significant saying ! Similarly one may say that the great battle which has to be fought out in the...

...Now I maintain that the training by means of games turns out by far the better man. The oft -repeated saying of the Duke of Wellington, that the battle of Waterloo was won on the Eton playing-fields, has a deeper meaning than is usually attached to it. Games do more than strengthen...