Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most important. The work of the church is admirable, but its ideas of civilization are different from ours, and if more than amusement or manual training is attempted, the priest is sure to interfere. In the next place, work among the lowest class is of little benefit without a lifelong experience. Amiable feelings are held in contempt by these people, and unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless. It is not worth while to attempt simple amusement, for the amount of sin or drunkenness is not decreased...
These different methods of study need not be carried on entirely apart from one another. If there is an opportunity for younger students to make investigations, as in local history, they should be encouraged in this pursuit, for it cannot fail to give them a lifelong interest in the study of history. In confirmation of this view, Justin Winsor related his youthful experience in collecting information from town records, from the inscriptions on gravestones, and from the traditions of aged people of the neighborhood...
...probable that in time the classes will grow still larger. That a change must be made sooner or later is evident. The question naturally arises as to who must suffer. The choice lies between the graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through that stage in a year; so that it seems better for the freshmen to yield. The proviso can be made that in case they win the Yale game the upper class...