Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration of men destined to devote their whole future to scholarship, science, philosophy, criticism, or art, and of students laying serious foundations of lifelong culture,- the leaders in the coming generation in the search for new knowledge, the establishment of new standards, and the creation of new intellectual forms...