A university is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations.
A. undying
B. humorous
C. famous
A university training is the great but ordinary means to a great but ordinary end.
A. outstanding
B. common
C. important
He is able to converse; he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably, when he has nothing to impart himself.
A. suddenly
B. appropriately
C. politely
He has a gift that serves him in public, and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar, and with which failure and disappointment have a charm.
A. lucky
B. wonderful
C. having a poor taste