Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR SIRS, - Can you give me any information in regard to the stained-glass window by Mr. Lafarge which paid us a short visit in Memorial Hall last winter? For a short while we were daily rejoiced by the spectacle of a faded young gentleman whose striking feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed...
...reply, Mr. Sargent observes, that Harvard was in former times "to many intents a mere theological school," and was founded for the support of the profession of theology. Now that young men are trained for the other liberal professions as well, there is little propriety, he says, in the "Ecclesiae." Dr. Osgood says in his letter that he is "authorized to say that there is no purpose or wish on the part of the College to change its seal"; and Mr. Sargent pertinently remarks...
...innocent young fellow whom you frightened like a bear...
...night on Arabella a young man had come to call...
...nice young gentleman unless he were...