Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general effect produced by the book is thoroughly pleasing, and the story will easily take a foremost place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...
...matter into some practical shape I would urge upon the Finance Club and Historical Society, as including men in their number who would be most likely to be interested in making these slips, to take the initiative and give the plan a trial. Both these clubs also contain the younger and more energetic of the instructors in their departments among their members. Will not the clubs, therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive and select a certain number...
Says the Hartford Courant: "The younger Mr. Charles Francis Adams not having found Greek useful to him either in soldiering, or in railroading, the Harvard faculty has decided not to require sub-freshmen hereafter to pass an examination in that language, tho' they may if they want to. It will be Latin's turn next, we suppose. Latin is a "fetich," too, and the decree has gone forth at Harvard that the "fetiches" must go. Perhaps some other things may go with them, but that is Harvard's lookout, not ours...
...your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar at the Boston Latin School,-only a few years ago, and we are his contemporaries. I contend that these charges are libelous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the overseers. Still, there are younger alumni, and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silvertops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that...
Striving to do better, oft we mar what's well. If the president succeeds in composing the board of younger counselors, I trust he may, in the words of the preacher, "miss not the discourse of the elders...