Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those charges have been obliged to withdraw their statements, made, as they declare, through a mistaken idea of the circumstances. It seems almost impossible to believe that the entire body of Princeton students were so carried away by their imaginations as to formulate such bitter charges with absolutely no groundwork of fact. The whole incident is much to be regretted...
...belief which had already been entertained has been strengthened. Ideality in academic study, unselfish devotion to science for its own sake, and that unshackled activity of thought which is at once the condition and the consequence of such devotion, retire more and more into the background as the classical groundwork of our mental life found in the Gymnasium is withdrawn from the pre-university course. This is, to be sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with...
...these questions is so great, inasmuch as so many sources have to be consulted, that only those who make a specialty of such subjects can afford to give them the necessary time. Such a course of lectures, giving a close idea of the conflicting views, would furnish a groundwork on which many could form clearly defined opinions who, without such help, might drift as circumstances determined into narrow and prejudiced views...