Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cathedral stands, because the chancellor's jurisdiction then did not extend to the left bank of the Seine. The chancellor's reason for trying to keep the Paris masters in his jurisdiction was a fear of definite organization, which would carry out the proposed opposition to his graduating younger men, who as teachers would of course reduce the fees of the other instructors. The masters claimed the right to be consulted by the chancellor in the conferring of degrees, since they, not the chancellor, had any interest in restraining the number of teachers. Soon the masters began to claim that...
...write this in behalf of my younger brother, Rob, who will enter with the class of '97. He must have a room in the yard, even if I have to endow the University with a new dormitory...
...soon as possible, and that is the ever present thought that some one or other is constantly plotting and leaguing against this university. We are altogether too prone here to imagine other colleges prejudiced against us, and this spirit is, in a measure, fostered by some of our younger graduates. It is a false and unsafe feeling, and one that in the end is bound to affect us in an unfavorable way, both ourselves personally, as members of Yale University, and at the hands of other colleges with whom we have dealings. This idea has been put forward so much...
...nine. It had beaten the Princeton nine, which called itself "the Nassau Club," 30 to 23, and the Lowells, Harvard's old antagonists. Harvard had a try at these same "Nassaus," and came off first best by the narrow margin of one run (17 to 16). "The visitors seemed younger and lighter than the Harvard nine, . . but were decidedly active and spry," says the Advocate. Harvard's play was good and steady throughout in a "tremendously exciting game," won by a lucky hit in the last inning. Of the Harvard-Lowell series which had been determined on, only one game...
...philanthropic gentleman, desirous to further among his younger fellow-countrymen familiarity with Washington's "New-Year Aspiration," has proposed and partially provided for certain Competitive Prize Recitals thereof, to take place in the last week of this year, in each town or city containing prominent literary institutions...