Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ROWING-CLUB has been organized by the members of the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium. A boat-house will be built on Charles River this spring; but healthy exercise rather than amateur honors will be the object of the club...
...following remark : "How often have I had a dear foolish girl inflicted upon me, and fairly writhed at the intellectual torture to which she has subjected me by her remarks. But there has been no escape. Everybody would have called me a boor had I ventured to tell this young lady how empty was her pretty head...
...proceed to the story, this interesting young man goes out "buggy-riding" with a young lady who is described as an incorrigible flirt, but who is really in love with her companion. Why, with his insufferable conceit, he is not aware of this fact, we are not told; at any rate, he is not aware of it, and proceeds to lecture the young lady on the sin of flirtation. She is so cut to the heart that she persuades the horse to run away, throws the reins out of the buggy, and faints. By a wonderful gymnastic feat the Puppy...
...some young men do remain and take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course...
...continued the young lady, "several gentlemen in '77 informed me that they did not consider the ordinary degree difficult enough, and so intended to spend another year in studying for something higher...