Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...might possibly be extended, if the interest taken in it warranted its extension, and the works of Dante read, together with those perhaps of Goethe and Schiller, and other great authors not previously announced. The course would be curtailed only in case the interest of the audience seemed to languish. We hardly think it necessary to impress strongly on undergraduates that with them depends the success of this undertaking, for it is impossible for us to believe that they can be so blind to their own good as to neglect such a golden opportunity for liberal culture...