Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early deprived of those guardians and friends on whom young men are so dependent. May the breaking of other ties not serve to lessen, but rather to strengthen, those which bind them to their Alma Mater and their college friends, and may they find here the true sympathy of friendship to enable them to bear bravely their great trial...
...grateful friendship's care...
...friendship's boon vouchsafed them...
...attack on our time-honored institution. "K" is not at all cool or persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and its fetters galling." Rather strong language, I think, to apply to the friendship which naturally exists between one or two hundred young men of like age, having like studies, and the same interests and pursuits in general. This writer longs for the time when "pseudo-unity of spirit will no longer be a palliative of transgression and a plea for distinction." He calls...