Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should not be taken up by senseless questionings. Overwork was perhaps the cause of his death. After his last lecture at Fitchburg he seemed completely exhausted, and wrote to discontinue some of his engagements; but he did not adopt this measure soon enough to give his system the rest it needed...
...mentioned. And for this it is not the government of our colleges which is mainly responsible. Could the thousand young men now studying at Cambridge be placed in business or other occupation, apart from old friends and old restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope...
...comments; many times we have repented permitting any one to criticise their taste or their wisdom. But the editors are forgiving; they return good for evil. The author of "Literary Ruskinism" will be pleased to learn that his article was especially praised; but he may not be inclined to adopt their advice, and drop Greek at the end of this year. This number of the Miscellany in some respects is not so brilliant as the preceding, but there is less to censure, less, too, perhaps, to wonder at. Some of its exchanges it treats very cavalierly, but for the most...
...easy it is to adopt an idea...