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Must not we of the colleges see to it that no historian shall ever say anything like this? Vague as the phrase of knowing a good man when you see him may be, diffuse and indefinite as one must leave its application, is there any other formula that describes so well the result at which our institutions ought to aim? If they do that, they do the best thing conceivable. If they fail to do it, they fail in very deed. It surely is a fine synthetic formula. If our faculties and graduates could once collectively come to realize it as the great underlying purpose toward which they have always been more or less obscurely groping, a great clearness would be shed over many of their problems; and, as for their influence in the midst of our social system, it would embark upon a new career of strength.
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hear the question raised, hear the question brought up or asked.
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nonplused, puzzled; reduced to hopeless perplexity.
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offhand, without previous study or preparation; extempore.
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pithiest, most forceful; concise; most terse.
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on your respect, in your particular case; with respect to you.
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aspire, desire earnestly; hope.
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women’s as of men’s colleges, because very often there are separate colleges for men and women.
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abstraction, theory; an idea stripped of its concrete accompaniments, sometimes visionary.
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historical perspective, the faculty of seeing into things from a point of view that is based upon the evidence or investigation of history.
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petroleum, rock oil, kerosene.
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suffuse, overspread, as with a fluid, tinge, or tint; fill.
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“good company” of you mentally, so train your mind that you are a more pleasant companion to talk with.
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boorish or caddish mind . Boorish refers to gross lack of breeding or to rudeness of manner; caddish refers to low-brow, presuming, mean, vulgar manners. A person with a boorish or caddish mind is one who is not fit companion to talk with because his interests are so narrowed down to the mean and vulgar things of life.
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how much does this signify? How much of this is true, worth while?
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pleading at the bar, that is what the lawyer does.
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second-rate, second class; not of the best.
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first-rate, first class; of the best.
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in his own line, in his own field of interest or business; in his own profession.
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slack, loose, careless.
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sham, unsound, false.
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beget, give birth to; produce; give rise to.
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line of us, our interest; that which concerns us.
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“narrow,” not broad in scope or view; illiberal.
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