Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Chapel, where prayer was offered by Dr. Peabody. The exercises in Sanders Theatre began at 11.30, when the Senior Class entered the crowded auditorium and took their seats in the parquet. Dr. Peabody made the opening prayer. The Oration, which was delivered by Mr. Charles Moore, related to young men in politics. His views of the present condition of the Civil Service were bold, yet thoughtful, straightforward, but not opinionated, and were received with applause by the audience in the galleries as well as by his class. There was a judicious absence of the "spread eagle" in this oration...
...which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount of rhetorical ability, of learning, of philosophical acumen, I cannot help saying to myself, if the young America of to-day can produce such evidences of talent what will be the America of the future...
...Frederick Weston Taylor, Henry Osborn Taylor, Hubert Engelbert Teschemacher, Nathaniel Niles Thayer, Charles Bayard Trail, Bayard Tuckerman, Paul Tuckerman, James Arthur Tufts, Hermann Francis Vickery, Charles Henry Vinton, Henry Prince Warden, Benjamin Welles, Joseph Cutler Whitney, Charles Kilborn Williams, Henry Austin Wood, Alfred Worcester, Gilbert Montland Yates, Theodore Trip Young...
...next after this succeeded the run of eight stadia; and one youth was somewhat ahead, but next followed a young man clothed in red as to his whole body; and last came another, excellent, indeed, as to other things, but not very swift of foot, far behind and running slowly; and applause arose up from among those assembled, as was fitting...
...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...