Word: ages
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REMARK is frequently heard to the effect that college graduates do not stand on an equality with other young men of their own age when they enter active life. An opinion so sweeping should carry with it little weight, but there are many who accept a conclusion of this kind without taking the trouble to analyze it. As we all know, there are not two men alike, and when a large body of persons are described as being similar in any respect it is well to investigate the foundations on which the assertion is based before we accept it finally...
...peculiar value in my eyes, for it not only served the usual purpose of mats, but it was a transmittendum, and a very venerable one, too. Long years ago one of those New England boys of the bean-pole structure, who entered college at the age of thirteen, brought the mat with him from his farm-home on Narragansett Bay. It was new then, and had been woven in bright colors by an old Indian squaw, a veritable descendant of King Philip. For a year it lay before the front door of the old farm-house; but it was destined...
...season of the year when it was cheapest; and that they then disposed of it to the students, throughout the year, at the original price. This was a wise custom, and made a saving to the students of that time which would not be despised in this enlightened age. I would therefore respectfully suggest to the powers that be, that they take this subject into their consideration, and relieve such strains on our not too heavy purses as the present advance in the price of coal. Anything that may serve to relieve us from the high charges of Cambridge dealers...
...parties which the students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies, and who were delightfully ill at ease in the company of anybody but men of their own age. Some who, like you, were blest with assurance tried to conceal their diffidence by a sort of familiar impudence that was anything but creditable to their training. Others, of a temperament more like my own, betrayed their confusion by blushing, stammering, talking like idiots, and playing alternately with their gloves...
...where I called. I aired some of my newly acquired philosophical knowledge to two young ladies who were kind enough to listen to me. Thus my call was passing pleasantly and profitably, when, unfortunately, a cousin of the family chanced to come in. He was a gentleman of uncertain age, but evidently desired to be considered younger than he really was; he was of a cynical temperament; although he had always lived in Boston, he did not in his youth go to college, and for this he was profoundly thankful; he openly declared that he had never known any good...