Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best means of applying a liberal endowment for education. In the continual multiplying of new foundations there must be in one sense a certain loss of time, energy and money. We do not believe that the higher education of the country should be concentrated in one, or oven in very few institutions. Every section should have its central college of liberal arts as a promotive to a broader education of the masses below. But the very best opportunities from simple economic reasons can only be offered in some few central universities of all sciences. It is these universities that...
Miss Wreckless to Old Scruples, who is looking at a plaque of her painting : "Now, that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...