Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grant's next literary venture of any importance was his novel called "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," which met with considerable success. His latest novel, "An Average Man," now running in the Century, does not come up to the expectations of his admirers; although the story started out in a bright and interesting style, the later numbers are hopelessly dull. The fact that two of the writers in the current Century are recent Harvard graduates, and the success of Life, show that in the fields of literature at least young Harvard graduates are making themselves known...
...have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until they are Sampsons above, grafted upon pigmies below. Probably one tenth of the students are thus selected for transformation into illy-balanced, unevenly developed specialties...
...lately met a successfull Girl Graduate, and melancholy indeed was the impression she made upon me. She had passed the examinations with the highest honors, and she was pointed out to me as a perfect marvel of knowledge, a walking encyclopeadia of buried languages...
...Girl Graduate looked at the carpet and nervously twiddled her thumbs. "Ye-es," she replied at last, with hesitation. "At least-that is-I don't mind it much...
...certain phase of the question of women's education, as viewed from a certain standpoint, is exemplified in the quotation in another column from an English article on the subject of the "Girl Graduate." We cannot but think the point of view there taken, and the conclusions implied however, exceedingly narrow. It is true that the present system of higher education for women results in the production of many uninteresting types. Yet it must be remembered that that system is yet in its infancy, and that furthermore the type portrayed in our quotation cannot fairly be said to be representative...