Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...than purgatory, so I did not smoke just then. On the road I found a small snub-nosed boy with his basket full of fine trout. The little wretch had fished the brook just a hundred yards ahead of me. I descended to base flattery, and attempted corruption. Noble Young America (of course his name was Bill) declined to barter his fame and his fish for gold...
...host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton is to figure conspicuously...
TWENTY-TWO young women have applied for admission to the Woman's College...
...that kind and urbane old gentleman, who will be a very father to you during your college course, and will introduce you to your sister, who will tell you at what hour the Dean receives, and will encourage you when you do nicely in your studies. Do not, dear young friends, despise this happy interior; this glimpse of home will make college life much less lonely...
...DEAR young friends, (for you are the Crimson's friends, are n't you?) we wish at once to take you in, in the kindly and Samaritan sense of the phrase, - to be meat and drink, board and lodging, to you; to be your "guide, philosopher, and friend," your vade mecum. I offer you a few suggestions, - suggestions merely; for the editors of the Crimson are too intelligent and gentlemanly a body not to be alive to the fact that a Freshman knows everything, and that it would be decidedly presumptuous for any one who has passed one or more...