Word: yound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This week has been set apart by the International Yound Men's Christian Association as the week of prayer for young men. The Harvard Association will observe the week by holding special half-hour prayer meetings in Holden Chapel at 6.30 every evening except Thursday and Saturday. At the regular meeting on Thursday there will be a special address on Association work, and a collection will be taken for the International Committee for which the Harvard Association has agreed to raise this year...
...single sentence the writer calls us "unpolitical Harvard men," characterizes as "foolish performances inside the College yard" the enthusiastic political meetings of yound men just entering into the highest privilege of citizenship, and says that we have "no issues at all" ! This is so marked by that affected disdain of seriousness of purpose with which the young amateur who dabbles in the decadent literature of our day flatters himself that he is intellectually superior, that I can hardly bring myself to seriously consider it. Does the writer stamp as "foolish" the meetings which the men have carried through to give...