Word: grey-bearded
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...seem to be links between the students of different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point out to his awe stricken son the letters of his name, and with pride narrate how he put them there when a schoolboy himself. Few relics in the old schools and colleges are more highly prized than the names thus inscribed of those who in after...
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