Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper in the time allotted. The hasty work done under such circumstances cannot fail to disgust the instructor, and we can say from experience that it disgusts the writer of the paper. It is almost impossible to get a fair estimate of a man's ability from the hasty scrawl which he really feels obliged to hand in, and we fail to see what object the instructor can have in view in setting such a paper, unless he wishes to test the students carelessness, and not of his intelligence. The custom, however, is founded in antiquity and supported by long...