Word: infant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...want of moral stamina and cerebral perception is often laboriously tiresome. We trust that our religious editorials will now do a great work. We have every reason to hope this, for at least even Lampy has been led to moralize, weakly, it is true, and as "an infant crying for the light and with no language but a cry." We will add to our "electric" column when we find space, "The Lampoon received; positively the number most worthy of 'club swinging' this year. 'Lampoon' please copy...
Nellie Chamberlain, of - what year was it? - reports herself as very busy over not-much-of anything at her home in Utica. Says Mollie Starks is in motherly raptures over "Edith Starks Brownell" which infant is "too sweet for anything." - Lasell Leaves...
...very evident. The last campaign explains it. The mugwump element in education is abroad, and it means to stay abroad until Greek 99 has learned its place and Latin 40 will acknowledge its existence. The cry for utility is slowly enlarging into something more than the call of an infant "crying for light." And it purposes to have the light...
...work disagreeable in itself, and often barren of result. Every year Harvard graduates a certain number of men-some of them high scholars-whose manuscript would disgrace a boy of 12; and yet the college cannot be blamed, for she can hardly be expected to conduct an infant school for adults...
...language long since in its grave. The words were so difficult to master and pronounce, that comparatively few obtained the privileges of citizenship. Other cities, notably Cornellsium, were rapidly augmenting their population by increased acquisition of new citizens, who not only rose to distinction in advancing the infant sciences, but aided materially in defending the city in times of danger...