Word: bred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...search of a position and see what welcome he will meet. He will find that an education is needed which he has never had, even to write Personals or to report a fire. If he follows the multitude and goes West, he will discover in every cattle ranch college-bred men like himself, who are going to work to learn the business from the beginning like any ploughboy before they can have the slightest chance of success. In short, the A. B., however high his rank in class, will find there is only one employment - that of teaching - in which...
...there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently the case, Columbia means to offer to college-bred men superior facilities in the higher departments of literature and philology, I, for one, hail this step as a decided advance. The intellectual tide is setting ever more strongly toward New York, and here, more than anywhere else, we shall, in the immediate future, need institutions affording opportunities for the highest culture...
...most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return for their advantages, generally serve to fix indelibly in the public memory every record of the failure of a college-bred man, and just as much to erase every instance of success, as merely what was to be expected under the circumstances. A slightly new aspect is given to this question by an editorial article in the first number of Our Continent. It says: "The statistics of the last ten years...
...university is helped by the success of its graduates in their respective callings. Some years ago an eminent lawyer from the West, not himself a college-bred man, and having no affiliations with Harvard, placed his son in the university. When I asked him why he had selected Harvard as the place for his son's education, he replied: "In my practice I have observed that a large number of men, whose principles I respected, whose manners I liked, and whose idea of professional honor and public duty commended themselves to me, were graduates of Harvard...
MISS C. [aside]. - Oh! this is the coachman, then. What a handsome fellow! Quite distinguished-looking, I declare. The Browns will be absolutely green with envy. But how ill-bred of him to sit down while I am standing! I suppose I shall have to - [reseats herself...