Word: careful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...uncommon use of a subjunctive, or to give a long dissertation on the ground of a Grecian author's choice of the infinitive with av instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions on the syntax of ordinary sentences; and was able, if not invariably to have every grammatical term at his tongue's end, at least to have enough familiarity with the fundamental principles of the language in question to apprehend the meaning...
...these men forget that the principles, which serve so admirably to guide the researches of finished scholars and learned men of leisure, are hardly as applicable to the student. They forget that the critical care with which they search the intricacies of works, to themselves familiar, is hardly appreciable, and certainly not enjoyable, to the student who for the first time opens these pages. They do not remember the good old-fashioned education which gave them their fondness for the life they now pursue, but only call to mind their new theories, and apply them practically to the rising generations...
...fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...
Nothing but hunger, sorrow, and care...
Some fortunate youth, untroubled by care...