Word: upstart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past of the Middle Ages, when the upstart poet Dante Alighieri began to write serious verse in the "vulgar tongue", and his work was accepted by scholastic Europe, a new precedent was established. It took six centuries for that precedent to make its influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...steadily growing cloud is rising from the university horizon, a cloud of literature, circulars and pamphlets pouring from the university extensions and upstart correspondence schools of what-not, and threatening to shadow the whole sky. The farmhand can learn to play the piccolo in ten lessons, the mayor can learn public accounting by mail. An education dropped through a slit in the door! The universities are hardly of any use now. A few years and they will be cut off from the light altogether...
Among the many problems confronting the new Administration, that of American shipping ranks high in relative importance. In the days when our nation was considered an upstart, the American vessels found their way in no small proportion into the scattered ports of the world. Since the time of clippers (now but a cherished memory) the "upstart" has developed by territorial expansion, growth of population, industrial and agricultural progress into a first rate nation with no mean commanding power in International affairs. But the carriage of our own products on the high seas has slipped out of our hands, and with...
...attractions of the well-known university, to men who come from beyond the limits of New England to attend it Mr. Train himself rather idealizes maintained for generations, argue in its possessor? Does it not to the ordinary mind tell a tale of superiority? A more upstart may affect indifference, but can he "get away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt...