Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spoke at once, at length and with great feeling, about his educational scheme. He had made his fortune, he said, in Louisiana. He had had scores upon scores of her best people in his younger days and in his maturer years as his best, his most intimate friends. They were well to do and had been enabled in consequence to send their sons, as was the custom of the day, to the North or to Europe for an education. All that was changed by the war. The sons of his old friends were impoverished. Their young sons could...
...appropriate that the dinner should be held at Parker's, which stands on the site occupied by the first building of the school in 1635. In view of the fact that there are over eighty men in college who are graduates of the school, it would seem that the younger men ought to be well represented at the dinner, though the tendeney has been, in past years, to consider the occasion as one more devoted to the interests of the older alumni of the school...
Nothing attests so forcibly the ascendancy that the ideas and the marked personality of Matthew Arnold has gained over the minds of the younger generation than the universal eagerness shown by the students of every American college of note, almost without exception, to see and listen to the great apostle of sweetness and light. Where arrangements have not been made for Mr. Arnold to lecture by the college or by the local authorities, it is noticeable that measures have been taken at almost all colleges by the students themselves to secure that privilege, as was the case first at Harvard...
...great singer of Greece, as if asking for sympathy from the shadows of the past: a poetic conceit, but one which has been sadly thwarted by those in charge of placing the windows. According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor. As the windows are now placed, the design is exactly reversed, and the graceful Virgil holding his scroll of verses turns his back upon the blind bard. It is to be hoped that this error will be corrected, as it might...
...obtained from the state privileges and honorable rights, especially that of an independent jurisdiction, and the right of granting academic degrees. The students of that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent who, for the most part, were placed under the superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs of each such union...