He has even invented the words ‘college-bred’ and one can see that education opens to man or woman doors that only birth or wealth would open here. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)
The field of service for the college and the college-bred;: Commencment address to the graduating class of Clemson Agricultural College, by Harry Luman Russell ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm so glad that you've used your actual life experience on the floor, instead of your college-bred ideologies, Nancy, to comment on what's wrong with this picture: atomized literalist geeky takes on data flows and lefty lockstep ideological prescriptions about "special interests". ❋ Scola, Nancy (2009)
The power of such notions among the college-bred is suggested by a statement of Mr. John W. Dean III: 'I would like to be a writer. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In papers read to the Monday Evening Club, and in his new book manuscript, he portrayed labor as a noble movement; the trained mechanic as cultural hero; the workingman as “the rightful sovereign of this world,”12 America as the successor to Europe in human enlightenment, and the progress-driven 19th century itself as “the only century worth living in since time itself was invented,” thanks to “the creation of men not college-bred.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the ❋ Unknown (2004)
This is about as much as the college-bred generally do or aspire to do, and they take an English paper for the purpose. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The college-bred star has the kind of polish that will get him in the majors quickly. ❋ Unknown (1999)
He instances a brahman, one of his own subordinates, college-bred and ❋ John Morrison (N/A)
Of Fuller's ancestry nothing is known, on the paternal side, beyond his father, a college-bred clergyman, who died in 1632. ❋ Various (N/A)
But there is a class among them, college-bred men and women, a small class, relatively, that is qualified. ❋ Adoniram Judson Ladd (N/A)
He was not college-bred, but he was the son of a learned father, old Malcolm Campbell, who had been trained at Aberdeen, the great school of Scotch Latinity. ❋ Marian Gouverneur (N/A)
"To me," said I, and I would be searching about in my mind for the right words, like a pedant, for was I not college-bred -- "to me," said ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
The boy's father, a college-bred man, had early chosen the better part, and employed his fine faculties in rearing laurels in his own beautiful nursery-gardens, instead of in the more arid soil of court-rooms or state-houses. ❋ Various (N/A)
Among the college-bred writers and their imitators, there was too great a fondness for little conceits; but even with them this was an extraneous blemish, like that sometimes found in the ornament upon a noble building. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
There is the house, they think, and, if you can afford it, you put on some architecture; there is the writing, and a college-bred man is expected to put on some style. ❋ Various (N/A)
As a boy, Lee himself had refused to accept the schooling urged by his mother and college-bred father, and had led a restless, roaming life, filled with hairbreadth escapes, until the beginning of the war, when he had enlisted in the hope of being sent across where the danger lay. ❋ Frank Cobb (N/A)
A college-bred man must be able to show at all times and on all occasions the quality of his distinction. ❋ Irvah Lester Winter (N/A)
