Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this prejudice is pointed out in two of the leading articles in this December issue...