The Origin Of An Expression

Mr. McElroy tells this: A few years ago sonie one defined a Mugwump to be "a person who is educated beyond his intellect." The reniark was credited to several leading New Yorkers. But one day, in reading Matthew Arnold's essay ''On Translating Homer" I carne across thissentence: "The late Duke of "Wellington said of a certain peer that 'it was a great mty his education had been