Word: bred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College-bred bears" are advertised among the attractions of a show. There will be nothing nevel in the exhibition to people who are used to taking the last car for Cambridge. - Transcript...
...their profession. The number of men who intend to devote their lives to journalism is by no means small; there are no technical schools for journalistic training, such schools would indeed be impossible from the nature of the profession. But now when our newspapers are recruited largely from college bred men, it is no more than right that colleges should add all in their power to prepare men for their profession...
...short article appears in the February number of the magazine of American History, on "College Bred Presidents," by Pavey, Yale...
...pretend to be what one is not is dishonest as well as ill-bred. Does the defender of Anglomania think social dishonesty "betters" Americans. I am generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...
...with all the training of a university routine, could yet, if they chose, recite a tale of dreary hope against hope, is too large. Mr. Rawle evidently laments this fact, and his address, if appreciated, is certainly calculated to be of material benefit to the college-bred men of the future...