单词 | haileybury |
释义 | Haileyburyn. Used to designate the system of providing civil servants, or the civil servants themselves, for service in India. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [adjective] > relating to Indian civil service political1748 Haileybury1864 1864 in F. C. Danvers et al. Mem. Old Haileybury Coll. (1894) 95 I trust the new men will be found to furnish persons qualified to sustain the character of the Service..[and] also worthily to fill those high posts of trust..which we now see so happily filled by Haileybury civilians of the old school. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 451/2 Towards the latter years of the 19th century the last of the old Haileybury civilians, who entered the service as nominees of the East India Company's directors under the system abolished in 1857, were leaving India. 1931 L. S. S. O'Malley Indian Civil Service 241 A system of pass examinations, such as the Haileybury entrance examination. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 474/3 The modern Civilian is the descendant of the Haileybury students of the early nineteenth century. Whatever the merits or demerits of the Haileybury system, it at least ‘led to a tradition of service handed down from generation to generation’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1864 |
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