It never occurs to the crowd that its business would be more successfully transacted by a chance group, say of headmasters of elementary schools, than by the statesmen who, at Versailles recently, dared not face the shocking realities because these could not be squared with a Treaty which had to frame the figments of the hustings.
"Waiting for Daylight"
Henry Major Tomlinson
Hirosaki is a castle town of some importance, 3.5 ri from here, and its ex-daimiyo supports a high-class school or college there, which has had two Americans successively for its headmasters.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
I have never met a man who could be more gravely condescending than the Warden's butler, and I know several first-class cricketers, two headmasters, a popular novelist, and a rising politician aged twenty-four.
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley