Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purchase of books, so that it has at present an annual income of more than $10,000 for that purpose. No funds are provided, though they are greatly needed, for salaries, cataloguing, binding, fuel, and service. A new Gymnasium is much needed for the 1,100 students and young officers who are now in Cambridge, its cost being estimated at $25,000. The fees from the students in the University amounted to $168,541.72, $102.884.78 coming from the College. I think that the rents are included in the income from property, which was $218,715.30. The current year will show...
...Round Table publishes a long article against dancing. The writer thinks that the introduction of this profane amusement into the mixed college society of the West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...
...Young Ladies of C - Street.O teeth of pearl, 'twixt lips that curl...
...think that the feeling is growing stronger that, though our Directors do all that we could expect of them, half a dozen inexperienced young men are not able to manage what is really a large hotel, and that it would be far better for all concerned if the College would take the affair into its own hands. The Corporation and Overseers used last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they...
...young ladies of Syracuse University is suffering from a severe attack of small-pox. A number of others are in quarantine, having exposed themselves to this loathsome disease by kissing the patient before her condition was known. Of course this has no connection with the fact that numbers of the gentlemen of the Institution are anxiously watching their symptoms from day to day and restricting themselves in regard to diet...