54 Life and Times of " The Druid? 



agement he had always given by his good 

 example and high principles to the moral ele- 

 vation of all around him. " I value character 

 and example much more than talent and 

 scholarship," added the famous head master, 

 as he shook hands warmly with the pupil 

 whom he never saw again. It is suggested 

 to me by Mrs. Dixon, who has already out- 

 lived her husband by twenty-four years, that 

 when Dr. Arnold shook hands with Henry 

 Dixon it was not alone the moral but also 

 the physical qualities of the pupil which won 

 the Doctor's commendation. At that time 

 the eighteen-year-old boy was six feet high, 

 and proportionately strong. Rugby has 

 always been noted for the superior running 

 and jumping of its boys, and some of the 

 gates which the best jumpers cleared — 

 notably Cole's gate on the Hillmorton Road 

 — are still pointed out to each generation of 

 new comers as tokens of the athletic prowess 

 and activity of their predecessors. At the 

 time of which I am now writing, Mr. Bonamy 

 Price's house, on the Barby Road, was for- 

 tunate in possessing three of the best athletes 

 in the school : to wit, Hodson, subsequently 



