Word: befitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made in our issue of yesterday of a new university with a princely endowment to be founded in Massachusetts. We certainly would not say a word to discourage the use of wealth for the spreading abroad of education in any part of the world whatsoever. Such affection would ill befit us above all others, since we enjoy the highest of such advantages for learning. But we think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West...