Word: outset
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...will be more or less associated, from which he will have clients or patients or parishioners whom he can serve the better if he has previously acquired some knowledge of their manners, habits, and characters. In two of the (so-called) learned professions a young man fails at the outset oftener from his ignorance or inexperience of society than for want of ability or attainments; and it is by no means rare for a man to make a signal failure in one place, and to have an equally signal success in a second, in which he has profited...
...them, no transition from one to the other. This involves a twofold inconvenience. First, for the scholar; if his aptit des show themselves tardily, and he then wishes to pursue classical studies, he is obliged to begin his course of study at an age when those who at the outset embraced secondary instruction have accomplished nearly the half of their course. The second inconvenience of this system affects the teachers of primary schools, who, not having any distant perspective before them, or the hope of any advancement, lack that most powerful stimulant, personal ambition, and become either dull or discouraged...