Word: begotten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...surfeited with lectures in Cambridge that a habit of indifference is begotten towards them, and pearls get cast before overfed creatures who take no notice of their preciousness. Some of the free lectures and courses given here should properly be reckoned by students among the privileges of a lifetime--but they are not. There ought, for example, to be two or three hundred more students at M. Rene Millet's lectures than appear there. The title of the course, and the analysis of its sub-divisions, sound, it is true, a little learned, and may have given the impression that...