Word: avowed
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...There could be no better field from which to gain this evidence than England, for her universities and her schools have for centuries been almost exclusively under the classical system. Canon Farrar gives his views on the present value of the system in the following words : "I must, then. avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system...