Word: young
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Endeavors to introduce out-of-door athletics at Wellesley have met with marked success. Up to the opening of 1892 no systematic out-of-door work had been given the students. Rowing was then introduced under careful supervision, and aroused such interest that 175 of the young women competed for positions on the crews. The class of '96 raised $2,500 to build a boat-house last year, and Dr. W. A. Brooks, a former oarsman of Harvard coached the crews...
...still in process of developement, still in more or loss of an experimental stage and not yet universally approved. The Annex offers courses of study whose standard is the same as that of Harvard, as high a standard as exists today, and makes the courses so attractive that young women of an age which very often finds them interested in nothing but society, are glad to give up part of this for science and literature and art. Not many years ago the young woman who went into "higher education" was inseparably associated, at least in the minds of young...
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...congratulate themselves on the new relations. We feel sure that the final adjustment of this matter will meet with the hearty approval of members of the University; though co-education in the popular sense of the word will not exist here, under the new arrangement the higher education of young women will be brought much nearer to that of young men and given the place that fairmindedness must admit that it deserves...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has for some time been at work with Miss Kate Stephens on a compilation of English prose and poetry for young folks. This compilation is now ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales...