Word: one
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...One advanced in life, who has been able to test many theories and make frequent applications, alone is able to offer what is truly valuable...
...professor is sure of his calling, his fitness for teaching. Men seldom voluntarily make a life work of what is distasteful to them, and if forced into a pursuit incompatible with the natural tendencies of their minds, their labors in one unwelcome would never gain them professorships in our first places of learning...
...one year, when the winds were keen, and frost had chained our land...
...before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all fairly, we shall be obliged to spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig" - and perhaps he least of all - would wish...
...one by one with steel and lead...