Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This question was too deep to solve; but the truth remained that every one collects something. Little boys collect birds' eggs; little girls, postage-stamps; theatre-goers, photographs; young ladies collect gentlemen's cards; older gentlemen collect tracts and MSS.; middle-aged ladies have a perfect mania for old lace and delft; and, finally, tradesmen are crazy to collect bills...
...even thought of my collection as celebrated; and I seemed to have asked some young ladies to my room to hear the autophones of every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would...
...annual supper of the Institute of 1770 came off last Friday evening at Young's Hotel. There were about sixty present, including all the members of the first ten from...
...frequently reminded in recitations of the emphatic statement of an instructor here, delivered in such a striking manner that it is impossible to forget it: "Gentlemen, this college is not a young ladies' boarding-school." I am inclined to doubt this assertion whenever I hear the familiar words, "You may omit the following passage"; but a look around the room, and the sight of N.'s imposing siders and T.'s incipient moustache convince me of its correctness. Then I wonder why the omission was made...
...made of Maecenas' kissing his wife, I did n't see the impropriety of the verses; but I finally found an explanation, - the tutor was unmarried. However, that did n't account for other omissions, so I was forced to suppose that we Freshmen were treated as very young boys, because the tutor did n't think we were yet "men," in spite of our own very decided opinion to the contrary. "Well," said I, "in the electives next year, at any rate, this over-delicacy will be done away with, and a beautiful passage will not be passed over...