Young men are tempted to take clerkships where they can dress well and do light work, instead of learning a trade which requires a long apprenticeship, and calls for rough, hard work.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
By far the greater part of the successful competitors for the Class I clerkships now come, as we have seen, from Oxford and Cambridge; and the men educated at those universities are still drawn chiefly from the upper classes, from the aristocracy, the gentry, the sons of clergymen, of lawyers, of doctors, and of rich merchants who have made, or who hope to make, their way into the higher strata of society.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
After eight years of service they can, in exceptional cases, be promoted to first-class clerkships, and this is sometimes done.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell