Word: deal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting was marked by thorough good-feeling between different parts of the class, and by a good deal of reverence in the final vote for Chaplain...
...means of reviewing and fixing firmly the rudiments of a liberal education. It is as to these that a good scholar on leaving college is most deficient, often not prepared for the admission examination. He can read Latin well, Greek passably; but there is a good deal of the minuter details of Latin and Greek grammar that he has not retained, while he has probably lost all of his Freshmen mathematics, except a few leading definitions and one or two remarkable propositions. Yet these elements will be of great worth to him in after life, both in his own reading...
...would be an imposition upon the public for any others to offer their temporary services. But these born teachers are comparatively few; next to them, in merit and serviceableness, come young men fresh from college. Their first year is often their best. They have to study a great deal through that year, and teach only what they have just been carefully reviewing. They are manly enough to command respect, and yet retain sympathy enough with boyhood to win the attachment of their pupils. They have not encountered the discouraging experiences, the damaging comparisons, the censorious criticisms, which are very...
...republication of rare books ("Allusion Books") in which reference is made to Shakspere, in issuing copies of the folios and quartos, in collating the texts and comparing them by parallel columns, there is a wide field for work. Already the Chaucer Society has accomplished a great deal in this way, and may well be taken for a model...
...such a picture? For who indeed ever sits down in his study - and few men can be their real selves there - and deliberately writes out a description of heaven, without making that happiest of all places "a land flowing with milk and honey"? That expression meant a great deal of one kind of happiness when it was addressed to an Oriental people thousands of years ago; but to many a person, milk and honey are altogether too distasteful to make any place desirable...