Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...efficient servants the cause of Education ever had. The clash of our college bell ringing for recitations with the bells on the neighboring steeples jarred on the nerves of every student who had ever known the deceased. Giving their sanction to such inhumanity, how can our Faculty complain if young men today lack the spirit of courtesy, patriotism, and nobleness that our forefathers...
...trustees of the Dean Academy have unanimously resolved to change the academy into a college for young ladies. After this year the young men are to be withdrawn, and another Wellesley started...
...country grows older, the young men rise into prominence less quickly. Time was when a boy graduated from college at fifteen or sixteen, and had his professional education or a good start in business before he had attained his majority. As college after college springs up, and higher education becomes more general, the number of graduates of the older colleges who become prominent men is proportionally decreased...
...following changes have been made in the Faculty of Princeton: Professor Stephen Alexander has given up the active duties of the Astronomical department, becoming Emeritus Professor; Professor Young, of Dartmouth, has been appointed to the Associate Professorship of Astronomy; Dr. Charles G. Rockwood, of Rutgers College, has been associated with Professor Duffield in the mathematical department. S. S. Orris, of Marietta College, O., has been given the Professorship of Greek...
...after the trying ordeal is over, and the "pictures in little" are ready to be scattered among friends, how very unsatisfactory they prove! From the young lady, who bestows her photograph with the remark "Are n't they perfectly awful?" to the acquaintances who agree with her for the nonce, but secretly decide that the picture "flatters dreadfully," there seems to be no one really contented. One expects, of course, to have his pictures criticised, but such criticism is often a delicate matter, and requires some tact, - more tact, at least, than was shown by the man who, on seeing...