Word: bred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Everything in fact was sacrificed to wit. Besides this, French influence made itself felt strongly, both in spirit and the form of literature. The tendency was strongly toward an affectation of loose morals - much worse than the reality, in fact, - bred partly by the hatred of Puritan sanctity and partly by the following of French ideas...
...hand and said that the home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
...Memorial Hall yesterday besides behaving worse than children did one of those things which in itself casts a slur upon the Harvard character and which with all of the necessary exaggerations added is sure to do so much harm to the college abroad. If men are not well bred enough to treat visitors as they should be treated, it seems high time that the gallery of Memorial should be closed during meal time...
...keep in touch with the life of the University and follow every changing phase of its development. They have the leisure to devote to the consideration of educational questions, and are in direct contact with education in its most progressive type. They come from families which have been college-bred for generations and in which sound educational instincts and traditions are assured. For all these reasons they seem better fitted to grapple the problems of management and government constantly arising for the consideration of the Board of Overseers...
...that they cannot tear themselves away from them. In a publishing-house, run on the large scale of many at the present time, a variety of openings is offered to just such men as these. If the applicant for a position in one of these houses be a college-bred man with a wide acquaintance with general literature and good judgment of its merits he may be given a trial at "tasting." a few of the multitude of manuscripts which are sent for publication, but which are not all accepted, of course. Again, if the applicant be found to have...