Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...effects of this system of education are fatal in the extreme. Horrible stories are told of this life in colleges, which I should be very loath to trust to paper. Those who have passed through it know what impure and fetid atmosphere is there breathed. Innocence loses its freshness; it is the perdition of the soul, often the irreparable ruin of the body. The graces of youth rarely survive this atmosphere of death. The evil is great, so great that few dare to look it in the face; and yet how many fathers, in full knowledge of the cause, persist...