Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. Liberal education is not safe and strong in a country in which the great majority of the men who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Now, that is just the case in this country. The great majority of the men who are engaged in the practice of law and medicine, in journalism, the public service, and the scientific professions, and in industrial leaderships are not bachelors of arts...
...Amherst Student pronounces the statement that three members of its nine do not belong to any regular class, "absolutely false...
...themselves, and hope to do efficient service if occasion arises. These young ladies, it says, after vainly entreating Chief Shaw to form them into a fire company, have voted that he is a mean old thing, and have organized a fire company closely modeled upon those to which men belong. "That the Girton girls should endeavor to fit themselves to put out their own fires is, of course, laudable. Although there is no danger that Girton College will be set on fire by careless smokers, it is still always possible that a student absorbed in midnight study may accidentally...
...does not add to a man's worth if he lets his vanity get the better of him by trying to exhibit himself as a member of various organizations. In games where Harvard students are likely to be present as spectators they would like to know what men entered belong to the college. How can they know this, when the college and university are so large and the means of acquaintance so small, if all the Harvard men entered are put down as coming from some distant clubs. Let those taking part avow themselves openly as members...
...American college life. The best of these before the appearance of "Guerndale" was undoubtedly "Hammersmith," but this dealt with the one set of college society which has always furnished materials for such books in all countries. The young men who have oftenest formed the heroes of these novels belong to the class called "sappy" and give but a poor idea of the flesh and blood which is to be found in colleges as well as elsewhere. Whatever other objections may be urged to "Guerndale," however, nothing can be said against it on this score. There is an air of life...