Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dante, are the children of the Provencal, a dialect of the Romance. Their songs and stories live to-day; but the "glory has departed out of Juda," and their volumes often lie dusty and worm eaten on the shelf. They abound, however, in poetry, - legendary, amorous, humorous, - and are well worthy of perusal...
...health, they seem quite as well as the young men; certainly, they present a smaller number of excuses...
...sixteen or eighteen years, just the period at which the heart and mind of the young are most susceptible of development. It is then, in the spring of life, that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead of broadening, they have the contrary effect of narrowing one's views. The pupils are taught to read, write, and calculate arithmetical problems; they are instructed in religion, and, in fine, they are educated, or rather (for the word...
...This poem, from an old collection in the Library, supposed to be of the Augustan age, has been sent to the Magenta, as one more proof of our great resemblance to the ancients in our pleasures as well as in our severer traits...
...GRADUATEDEAR SIR, - I have heard of but a single instance, among the young women at our University, of inability to keep well up with the class. As a rule, the young women average about ten per cent better on the examination papers than do the young...