Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...growing up who assail the theories of old political saints and economic quacks. They weep over the unworthiness of a young professor who will not respect old humbugs. They run to protect Evarts with the names of Lincoln and Sumner. I am old enough to wish that I was younger. In the course of my life I have picked up one or two observations. I have noticed that whenever a big newspaper thinks it worth while to spend half a column to tell a man that he is of no account, he may be sure that he counts...
...complaints about the appearance of the Michigan Argonaut have always seemed to us quite unfounded, as it is always neat, not to say attractive. Its contemporary, the Chronicle, suffers by comparison, for the younger journal contains more news, has better press-work, and is generally more inviting. We should consider that the Argonaut deserved a large circulation, for its notes on all departments of the university are very full, and its literary and editorial departments very fair...
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...length received into the university as an independent factor was originally begun in 1873 with three students, under the title of County College. The Duke of Devonshire, who is chancellor of the university, subsequently permitted the college to assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train in the art of teaching those students who desire to become schoolmasters, and to secure the greatest possible economy in cost as well as time. In these aims it has succeeded. Its students obtain...
...Parker's (in the large room, No. 6, fragrant with the memory of many a symposium), and a young gentleman was seated between Judge E. R. Hoar and Mr. Dana. There was a general discussion upon the merits of the candidate, which reached back and forward. This young gentleman - younger then than now - listened and gradually grew merry with the thought of the perturbation which the planetary orb of Butler was producing in the political system. He was not a friend of Butler - then or now - but the gravity of his companions at the table, instead of oppressing him, seemed...