Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...your mind which you thus protect. But this is advice to those who are soft-hearted. They who remain unmoved in the presence of suffering are to be envied, and you should seek to be like them; for they save both peace of mind and purse. In any case, keep away, as much as possible, from those who are ill off in mind or in body. Avoid the streets of poverty, and harrowing tales. Believe that all who are poor are dishonest and undeserving. In truth, there is much ground for such an opinion, and it is a great promoter...
...their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent and eager to learn, they hope to attract professors of the highest scholarship, who will be obliged to keep up and give evidence of their learning by publishing from time to time essays on subjects included in their special departments...
There is so much to be said on the educational principles involved, that it devolves on us with double force to keep widely distinct the best purpose they may serve and the unimportant use they may have first been put to. Yet, even in this spirit there seems less of promise in these contests than their most ardent friends among us, if there be any such, could reasonably expect. A singular apathy in regard to the whole contest is as apparent as it is wide-spread. Whether or not this apathy is without good foundation will be somewhat tested...
...advisable for a college graduate who does not mean to be a teacher permanently, to keep school for a year or more after leaving college...
...debt, it is better for him to enter at once on his professional studies, especially at the present time, when the freshness and vigor of youth are at a premium in some of the professions, and at a discount in none. But if one is in debt, he should keep school, or engage in some remunerative employment long enough to free himself of pecuniary encumbrance, which is always felt as a heavy burden in the entrance upon a professional career...