Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examiner at the London University, speaking to another examiner, boasted of the puzzling questions he had been ingenious enough to ask, whereupon the other replied, to my great satisfaction, "You should try and find out how much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British...
Belinda dear, I sadly fear...
...week, he touched upon a point that deserves attention. He stated it as his opinion that there was not, among us, that general interest that he found among Oxford undergraduates, in the political and social affairs of other people, not to speak of those of our own country. We fear that this must be fully acknowledged; while it is much to be regretted that here, at least, there should not be some influence at work against the feeling, "We don't care for abroad," which so often finds expression in America. At Oxford, the debates of the Union do much...
...vote is that intelligent and conscientious men will not allow party filiation to rule their better judgment and force them to support an unfit or corrupt candidate. How much influence this warning will have with the leaders in both the great parties, we are unable to say, but we fear that it will be very little. The University, however, in declaring for an honest and competent man to direct the affairs of the nation, has performed its duty. The vote, though not as large as it might have been, speaks well for the interest taken in politics by undergraduates, while...
...fear not, for I 'll protect thee...