Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought not the system to be abolished, and our instructors saved? A few more years of this diet of so many husks and so few kernels, a few more years of exposure to this book of awful manner, matter, and style, and what will become of our professors...