Word: childness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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FRESHMAN engaged in drawing up the little preliminary autobiography required at Dean's office, gets along nicely until he comes to "name of father," which he leaves blank. Sardonic Harris suggests, "T is a wise child...
Resolved, That, while we join in these resolutions for the loss which we have sustained, we also tender our heartfelt sympathy to his widowed mother, who by his death is called upon to mourn her only child...
Aweary of the joys of sweet child life...
Upon her restless child, the earth, asleep...
...down this element in the majority of men. Of course there are exceptions, but excessive modesty is not a common failing of the age. The boy who dragged his new trousers around in the dust before wearing them, so that their freshness might not be suspected, was an uncommon child. Boys don't do so now. Even the persons who are seemingly most free from the common weakness, if you but change their circumstances a little, are as subject...