Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large that a professor sees it would be impossible to know even a majority of the students, and so prefers to know none at all ? Is it because there is no Socrates amongst us? Or because the professors, especially the younger ones, think it below their dignity to become familiar with their pupils? Or, finally, because even with professors, in this money-seeking age, there is a tendency to impart no more of their knowledge than is precisely stipulated in the terms of their engagement...