Word: young
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...recitation, who read the line as follows: "And ancient clemency indulges the old men with pork." These two renderings might seem incompatible, were it not for the explanation of the scholiast, who comes to the rescue, as usual, and tells us that although the old pigs were spared, the young ones were invariably eaten...
...blooming young coquette...
...counts in the indictment of Charles Francis Adams vs. Harvard College, as the readers of his oration will remember, are, in brief, these: that our course of instruction is utterly deficient in two branches, both of the utmost importance in fitting young men to take part in public affairs, - said branches being, 1, the art of composition; 2, oratory. In the course of his argument in favor of these departments of instruction, our complainant exhibits in strong light the high estimation which he puts upon them in contrast to the indifference with which they are regarded by "the powers that...
Which the blighted young chemist, observing, goes off by himself in a scow...
...changing they were held in line in the following order, beginning at the western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush...