Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore, indeed!" said the young man, smiling. "Well, I am more Sophomore than anything else, but I am a Junior and a Senior and a graduate, too. I am always a college man, and a man of the world as well; but my favorite resorts are summer watering-places and college societies. I was created when Eve was and have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time...
...stopping to look around, and, more wonderful still, not pausing to read the Notes and Queries, the three ladies sailed up to the young lady at the desk. The umbrella opened fire as follows...
...Advocate suggests. But why must there be music? It does not form a necessary part of the morning exercises, and we venture to say that very many would prefer to employ the time which it takes up in some other way. History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards...
There is, indeed, quite an array of distinguished names among the former editors of college papers. It is an inspiring thought to the young writer that Webster, Everett, and the Rev. Joseph Cook all began their great careers in this capacity...
...joined two evils which must be weighed in forming any just estimate of its worth and usefulness. The first evil is that the student's editorial duties are likely to exhaust his energies, and thus to unfit him for his regular college work. .... The other danger to which the young editor is exposed is that of forming a faulty style...