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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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“humanities,” the branches of polite learning, especially the ancient classics; those studies which aim to appeal to our reason, polite literature having to do with human beings and teaching a reasoned attitude towards life.
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masterpieces, the best works; the best things written.
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primacy, prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.; hence, excellency, supremacy.
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being little more than, a little bit more than; being somewhat more than.
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chronicle, record, history.
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successive achievements, accomplishments which follow one after the other.
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The sifting of human creations! Taking that which human beings have brought into existence and separating the finer things from the coarser things.
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biography, the lives of persons as a branch of literature.
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