Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uses of co-education are not all clear. I can suppose that the young men in an institution where co-education prevailed would be benefited by the constant association with the other sex; that their manners would be refined, and that they would early grow out of their boyish roughness. But I cannot imagine equal benefit to the girls. I suspect no danger in co-education to the character of the students; it merely seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women...
...remain. If there is any just reason for its removal, those who wish it would do well to petition and state their reasons. If it is merely on the ground of animosity toward the authorities that such action is taken, the sooner those who are concerned in this boyish trick are discovered, the better for the college, and the worse, we hope, for the participants...
...which his boyish days had past...
Soon he forsook this boyish dress...