Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unlikely that many of the freshmen who have just entered college are thinking how much more they will know four years hence than they know now, and how much better able they will be to study and conduct original investigation, and how much bigger men they will be in every way. Of all these things, it is to be hoped they will not be disappointed, that in a certain degree we believe they will not. But at the end there are two things of importance to be avoided, the danger of self-satisfaction, that is, of conceit for too much...
...said a conscientious teacher, "do you know why I am going to whip you?" "Yes," replied the young hopeful; "because you're bigger than...
...they escape it, they will not only be happy, but very lucky. Their success is generously hoped for; but old heads in the business who have had their full of experience, and who are old-fashioned enough to believe that training is necessary to success, think they have a bigger job before them than they realize...
...turn for advancement. After the apprenticeship is over, the scholarship which he has acquired at college will serve a useful part and help him to success. Homer and Legendre will make him not only a better lawyer or preacher, but merchant and miner, simply because they made him a bigger...