Word: illsuccess
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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They say that the universities produce dislike for hard life, and in this dislike is an ultimate and incurable cause of illsuccess. Others, though less hostile, consider the university career "no good," except to give manners, and hold that the money and time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to secure a problematical gain, in the way not so much of success or of happiness, as of grade. These men are seldom thoroughly cultivated, but greatly exaggerate the effect of university culture upon grade, perhaps of all errors about the system the one most generally prevalent. Still others maintain strongly...
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