Word: implant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between the present standards and those of the time when Harvard was a local institution After...
...purpose to send forth into the world mere money-making machines. The New York business man needs, after the bustling life down town, the rest and refreshment of some literary pursuit; hence, our lecture courses on the different literatures are intended to foster a literary taste, and implant a desire to know something more about those new worlds that offer so fair a literary fruitage...