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...that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average age of a Harvard student, upon entering his junior year, is twenty-one years. Surely no one will argue that what is permitted to a mature youth of twenty-two must be denied to a tender stripling of twenty-one. Far more naturally, liberty of choice in this matter should be given when one arrives at his majority. Of course there is no peculiar charm or virtue in one age over another, but, as we have said, if a limit must be set somewhere...
...following, from the New York Independent, puts Oscar in his true light : "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe really seems very naive in her expression that as `the representatives of tender hope and divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not for rakes. Mrs. Howe may properly invite the repentant, but not the unrepentant Magdalen or roue to her house. For our part, we acknowledge a shiver when we hear a presumably pure woman speak familiarly the name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company...
...remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith of his own nation. He is gone. Some feel that they have lost a dear and loving friend. All are filled with tender sympathy for his family. In all the relations of life he was tender and thoughtful. For the services to which he was called here his work was earnest and faithful. The death of Prof. Ko seems, to our mortal reason, untimely. He had acquired some knowledge of our language...
...account of this tender young child...
...last number of the Acta fairly bristled with sarcasm on the N. Y. Sun and abuse of its literary taste. The cause of the explosion was a severe criticism in the Sun of a certain sentimental, rather "gushy" sonnet on love and the tender passions, that appeared in a late number of the Acta...