Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...NINE young women tried the Harvard examinations in New York City last week, and their papers were unusually good...
GEORGICS, BOOK III. 103-104."The professors miss the young gentlemen, who are tolerably knowing, and are off on their travels...
Perhaps, however, this loosening of the bond is not to be deplored, for any respectable old mentor who should nowadays attempt to follow the vagaries of his young Telemachus would have a hard time...
...Thus young Van Duzer, whose papa is an ornament of our first social circles and senior member of the firm of Van Duzer, Van Nostrum, and Drench, is a melancholy confirmation of this fact. This young gentleman took a Fine Arts course last winter, and ever since has been impressing upon his kind old father and simple-minded mother the necessity of his satisfying his mind in regard to the existence of the flying buttress in the best examples of Romanesque architecture. But alas! this estimable youth, instead of being in some quiet town, architecturally rich in the relics...
...Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself...