Word: bred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Greek or Roman the place which English occupies in our education would seem absurdly small. There never was so fine a literature as ours, and never was a literature so neglected by those who possessed it. There are many college-bred men who have mastered Latin poetry and Greek plays, for whom Shakspeare continues to be Greek, and Milton but a stumbling-block...
...that it cannot suffer in one department without suffering in all, should use every legitimate effort to maintain English as a required study. Surely nothing is more important than that one understands as thoroughly as maybe his own language; and when the gross ignorance of English even among college-bred men is considered, it becomes a matter of grave moment that Harvard, foremost in so many things, should not be backward in undertaking a change for the better in this direction...
...myself, I had been bred...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...