Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...young women have done better than that; they have raised the average of conscience and manliness and decency more than ten per cent...
...there exist in France the so-called Normal Schools, of which I wish to say a word, as they are intimately connected with the Primary Schools. The pupils enter them at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, just the period at which the heart and mind of the young are most susceptible of development. It is then, in the spring of life, that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead of broadening, they have...
Reading in your number for January 16 a letter from Cornell University, which stated that "many" of the young women, students of that institution, failed to keep up with their classes, I addressed a note to President White, asking for more detailed information. I rely on your love of fair play for the publication of his answer...
...GRADUATEDEAR SIR, - I have heard of but a single instance, among the young women at our University, of inability to keep well up with the class. As a rule, the young women average about ten per cent better on the examination papers than do the young...
...young woman who took a degree at the last Commencement stood easily among the first fifteen in a class of a hundred...