Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the directors of Memorial Hall on Tuesday, a committee of two, with the president, was created, whose business it shall be to publish to the members from time to time all information about the conduct of the business of the association that will interest them and enlighten them upon the spirit and true workings of its affairs. The policy of the corporation of the college has been of late to throw the association as much as possible into the hands of the students, and it is to be hoped that the committee just mentioned will succeed in awakening...
...World is pleased to state that Mr. Carl Schurz is to enlighten the callow youth of Harvard as to the relation between railroad lobbies and civil service reform. The description of the scholarly members of the Phi Beta Kappa (including so many of the professors and graduates of the university) as "callow youth," is as impudent as it is amusing...
...often see a funny phrase in some of our exchanges which we do not understand. "The coeducational members of the college," etc. What are "coeducational members?" How are they different from other students? "Strengthen us, enlighten us, we faint in this obscurity...