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Word: dryest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through the land can bear testimony, recalling that it was he who first showed them that there were things to be learned which were not set down in any book,- that he initiated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINUTE ON PROFESSOR LANE. | 11/23/1897 | See Source »

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