Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...diverse subjects than when concentrated upon one only. It was this distinction between two equally intellectual men, employing their power, the one in a single direction, and the other in many different directions, that I meant to express by specialist and superficialist. Superficiality as only comparative, as what is profound to the uneducated man may seem entirely superficial to the specialist upon that subject. Your correspondent has certainly been very unfortunate in his experience with the "specialists of college," since he professes to have found them equally superficial with those who, in accordance with "third reform" take but one course...
...membership of about forty, was established recently. The society "system" differs at Brown from that found at most of the New England colleges. There are no chapter buildings here, nor any society houses. The halls are all in city buildings, the locations of which are supposed to be profound mysteries. It was rumored a few months ago that another fraternity was seeking entrance here. The ground has been well covered, and a new society would find it hard to obtain suitable members...
Although Chunder Sen did not believe wholly in Christianity as we do, yet his main ideas were similar to those of the Christian religion. Under his ministration, the natives of India have become much more civilized, and although his death caused profound sorrow everywhere, yet he has a large number of disciples who are still disseminating his doctrines among the people; and it is hoped that in the course of time India will give up paganism and turn to Christianity...
...speak of a few of professor Sophocles' peculiarities in the following words: Professor Sophocles was a scholar of extraordinary attainments. His knowledge of the whole length and breadth of the Greek literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown...
...also let me tell you a profound secret (don't you ever give it away)-that sophomore editorial is never written by any member of the sophomore class-a statement, perhaps, a little incongruous with the one you made about classmates of the editors...