Word: fears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without fear of contradiction that education in these institutions is deplorable and pernicious...
...undergraduates are not allowed to marry, we fear the rising generation at Yale is very stupid. "T is a wise child that knows its own father." But perhaps the frequentative was used by mistake...
...regard to our future course. Men in college cannot always decide what they want, as is shown by the frequent change of electives. How much greater, then, would be the dissatisfaction, if in their first year they could choose their own studies. It is by no means a vain fear that the subjects which prove to be "soft" would be too readily elected in order to escape more difficult, though perhaps far more important studies. And this may happen, not through any desire to lessen work, but by an imperfect knowledge of the subjects and their importance. There seems...
...ground with fear, must ye need satiate
...Fear no longer the world's alarm...