Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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When I tenderly asked him if "better," he replied, in irascible mood...
Affectionately yours, NELL.P. S. Ask father, please, what law books I had better read up for a forensic on indirect claims...
...works of Bulwer in nearly all departments are very numerous, and deserve to be better known than is now the case. His "Athens: its Rise and Fall," although of little value as a history, contains some original and vigorous thought with regard to her institutions, legal and literary...
...boyish prejudices by degrees grow weak, and a new public sentiment, more favorable to scholarship, takes their place. Unless the students really feel the necessity or the dignity of learning, there can be no great advance of it. The question at issue is, whether they can be roused better by strict discipline and repeated exhortations than by being compelled to depend on themselves in meeting the exigencies of college life. The first system has been tried, and with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more...