Word: omit
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...have been obliged this week (as once before this year) to omit our Sporting Column, owing to the great press upon our columns...
...themselves important, are absolutely valueless compared with the advantages of a thorough knowledge of English. The evil is the greater in that the preparatory schools - as far as the classical courses are concerned - are obliged, by the strain and worry of preparing boys for their severe entrance-examinations, to omit or neglect, in great degree, the study of English composition and grammar; while the lack of time for gaining even an elementary knowledge of our own literature brings about a most deplorable result, - young men enter college skilled in mathematics and classics, but positively ignorant of their mother tongue...