Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Blushes? Well, dancing is heating; blame the last waltz if you choose...
...little knowledge that they perhaps would not otherwise get; and to put the studious in such a position that they may get the best return for their work. But if the syllabus were given out at the beginning of the year, these results could be reached as well, or even better; for it would then serve as an index, or table of contents, to the work to be done, and some recitations that now are nearly useless because their connection with the subject as a whole is not realized, would confer other blessings than those of heavenly sleep. Such...
...James Stephen has pointed out that in history it is quite possible for an adroit and dexterous man who has coolness, tact, and experience in examinations to assume the deceptive semblance of great erudition. It often happens that one who from much reading is acquainted with the minutiae as well as the outlines of history gets no higher mark (or perhaps not so high) than another who has confined himself to a syllabus. But granted that marks are too trivial a matter for a grave argument like this, there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When...
...study of a limited number of books, it will be of more advantage to him as an aid in the acquisition of knowledge and the culture of the mind, "which grows by what it feeds on," than a hasty digest of all the volumes on the shelves of a well-filled library...
...They must not talk down to the people; they must elevate the masses by clear logical earnestness; must sustain life by imparting life, and this not with narrow sectarianism, but with large views of the whole duty of man. Live preaching seeks to disseminate truth, and is acceptable as well to Harvard students as to other people outside college walls...