Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner of the Harvard Club," the writer continues, "the genuine college spirit shone out. Harvard was really there. One saw it, sensed it, distinguished the flavor of it. Some seventy of the alumni were present, besides a few invited guests. They were mostly of the younger generation, but not all. All, however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct...
...scientific research and inquiry. The results of this are seen at every American college. The time which should be occupied by our old and able professors in individual research and higher instruction is often almost entirely taken up by elementary instruction, such as could be given as well by younger...
...commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...
...whatever we can do to make her more worthy of our nation we do also for every other institution of superior education. You can see how it has been in this city with regard to the work of Harvard men in education here. When a small group of the younger men have established in this city good preparatory schools, they redound to the credit not only of Harvard, but of every other college which is fed by them. And when we establish in Cambridge a true American university, when by your loving help that shall be at last created...
Professor D. A. Sargent of Harvard, who is doing so much for the physical education of this generation of students, younger and older, in his "Health and Strength Paper," has timely counsel about measuring one's strength with that of others. - [Advertiser...