Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...level with the English and French schools which exist in Athens for the pursuit of the same studies. The excellence of the work done by the American students is in every way equal to that done by the others, and is hardly overshadowed by the work of Germany's younger scholars. The volumes of the papers of the school which will appear this year will contain some of the most valuable archaeological work ever done by Americans. The excavations at Assos, which may be termed a Greek Pompeyi, are of extraordinary value and interest...
...rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly on the part of the younger players who take up the game can prevent its future being the brightest, because the most free from any professional or hippodroming element, of any of our pastimes...
...departments that touched philosophical and social subjects. The gift in his memory of the money for the United States History Library at once fills an urgent need in an important branch of study, and forms an appropriate memorial to one of the ablest and most loyal of the younger graduates...
...courses given by the present generation of teachers. Justice to contemporaries requires at least a brief review of the present condition of the work which, since the retirement of Professor Torrey and the death of his successor, Professor Gurney, in 1886, is left entirely in the hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition was made, the chief burden of practical teaching had begun to rest upon men like Professors...
...this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches, nor in any way hamper the missionaries in their efforts to give the tribes a knowledge of the Christian religion. But it is insisted upon that the schools established for the education of the younger generations shall teach the language of the country of which their pupils will become citizens. Each year the number of those wishing a higher education is increasing, and the question of college education for Indian young men is one that demands immediate attention...