Word: wielder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition that the patriotism of college men is different from that of Americans who haven't the good fortune to go to college; the other is the notion of a Harvard Freshman or Sophomore as the wielder of an "austere academical influence." There was no course in austere influences in my day; and we were never advised to use any particular brand of patriotism. In fact, we were rather led to believe that those who occupy the choicest places in the Republic should be the quickest to respond...