Word: adult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...favor of abolishing compulsory prayers and Sunday worship at Harvard. In an editorial entitled "College Government" it points out that the undergraduate is not looked upon now as he was in the times of our fathers: "The view taken of him heretofore has been that he was not an adult, and that the college, having him under tutelage as well as under tuition, had some responsibility for his behavior. But the elective system presupposes that the student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same...