Word: misdirected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions, suggestions, and advice, one is impressed with the great liability of students to misdirect their efforts, or from a lack of earnest purpose to drift through college without any special aim taking things that are easy to them, or that they fancy to be adapted to their tastes or their uses. Nothing could be worse or further from real education than a dilettante picking at this and that...