Word: young
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...than such a significant and conspicuous lowering of the standard of the higher liberal education would be at the present time. The one thing more needful than any other in the whole business, social and political world of America, is a broad, generous and leisurely liberal education for its young men preparing for active life. To lower the standard of liberal culture, and above all for the movement for its reduction to come from those bodies which should be its friends, would be deplorable in its moral effect throughoutthe community. Besides undoing much of the best work of the past...
...college has no right to cheapen its diplomas. The result can be accomplished either by the united influence of the large colleges upon the preparatory schools or, as proposed by the method of anticipating studies. Let the attendance at preparatory schools be steady in boyhood, as in France, and young men will then invariably graduate from college at twenty, as they are well able to do. Moreover, we deny that the new doctor or lawyer begins his real life work later than other young men who, instead of going to college, have drifted from one calling to another until...
...informal meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association was held in the Lawrence Scientific School last evening. Professor Shaler made a short address, and music was rendered by several members of the society...
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...Whitaker has arrived at Young's Hotel, Boston, with new parterres for the coming autumn and winter. He will be there until 6 o'clock, Oct. 10. Office hours, 9 till 11 a. m., 4 till 7 p. m. He will be pleased to attend to appointments after these hours...