Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hopes are blasted! It is actually the abuse of scholarships which so frequently leads to the ruin of students. At all the Russian universities there are a great many free students and holders of scholarships; their number sometimes reaches and even surpasses half of all the students. These scholarships tempt many boys to enter the university who really have no business to be there. The son of well-to-do parents is rarely seen there - now less so than ever, since the universities have become the rendezvous of the proletariat that clamors first for bread and then for patriotic deeds...
...Cornell Era quotes from an address delivered before Havard Alumni in 1866 on the subject of "University Functions," words that can well bear repetition: "An indispensable condition of intellectual growth is liberty. Give the student, first of all, opportunity; tempt him with the best of teachers; lead him to the fountains of intellectual life. His use of these fountains must depend on himself. If, beside opportunity, the college can furnish also the inspiration which shall make opportunity precious and fruitful, its work is accomplished. The college that fulfils these two conditions - opportunity and inspiration - will be a success, will draw...
...trifle with me! do not make a jest of my love! My love! Oh, Madge, do not tempt...
...spite of the recent losses suffered by miscreants appropriating "shingles," several societies still tempt fortune by leaving their shingles out several nights in succession...
...recommendations. It 's an interesting state, one that is warranted to fascinate the fair sex. Then it 's a sure remedy for unpleasant engagements; and you can shake a bore on the strength of it every time. But, my young friend, do not allow these allurements to tempt you into the rash path that leads per asthma ad astra. Breathing slowly and peaceably is a boon which you will learn how to appreciate when you have finished your diurnal sweater of five miles, - a mere nothing, Jim will call it. No! If a man bores...