Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...choice of so many studies, has a tendency to develop specialists in one study, the evil effects of which in youthful education are freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and natural history to be learned at haphazard. All will admit the value of these studies in developing sides of our character and tastes which History, Philosophy, Mathematics, or the general study of literature necessarily fails to do. Acknowledging the value of Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, many a man of a literary penchant is deterred from electing them...