Word: prurient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shut out women from the institution's privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...