Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...women, and the thunder of the elements, they rushed round (as did several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that only one parrot escaped, and to their disinterested attentions that several young and lovely women were saved the disgrace of fainting in so public a place...
...cool or persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and its fetters galling." Rather strong language, I think, to apply to the friendship which naturally exists between one or two hundred young men of like age, having like studies, and the same interests and pursuits in general. This writer longs for the time when "pseudo-unity of spirit will no longer be a palliative of transgression and a plea for distinction." He calls class feeling "the curse of our college," decidedly fails to establish...
Colonel Higginson quotes Voltaire, - "Ideas and beards are alike, - women and very young men have none"; so we do not place much confidence in our opinion in this matter, which is as follows...
...Western mixed colleges are said to have, like boarding-schools, very strict rules with regard to the conduct of their students. The existence of these rules proves that they are needed. We know that boys and girls find ways of circumventing their teachers; does any one suppose that young men and women do not? To us it seems that, if women come to Harvard, the true policy of the College will be teaching, pure and simple, without any laws to control the students outside the class-room. Then it will be expedient that the dormitory system shall be entirely abolished...
...Wabash Magazine contains a delightful poem entitled "Charley." It is supposed to be written by a young woman to whom he had been engaged to be married. When young...