Word: parnassus
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...would unite in disapproving such a course. The plan of college assistance is, as we understand it, to smooth the rugged path of the poor but promising student, so that that part of his energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties of the journey to Parnassus may be devoted to intellectual effort; and, up to a certain point, everything which relieves the mind of the strain of over-exertion and makes life cheerful is so much help to the hard worker. Shut off from society, compelled to pass four years of exhausting, unremitting labor in dingy dormitories...