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Example sentences for: routh

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President Routh, we read, advised an undergraduate, “Always verify your references, sir!”
One recalls the advice given by the aged Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), President of Magdalen College, Oxford, to an undergraduate: “Always verify your references, sir!”
Routh is still notable as one of the great British eccentrics.
A footnote to the verify-your-references anecdote may interest readers, since the two participants in that famously anticlimactic exchange (Martin Joseph Routh, then aged about 92, and John William Burgon, then about 34) are celebrated for other reasons.