Word: soonest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp upon, the dull, stimulate the idle, fit even the most stupid for the humble place that he will hold. The faculty and college that soonest recognize this fact and act upon it will not only command the gratitude of parents but will do the best and most effective work for the country. It is not cloisters or shades of lettered ease like Oxford and Cambridge that the masses of the United States want...