Word: ferment
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...existed is perfectly proper. It is a self-evident fact that long hair per se is subversive of all established rules and authority. It is needless to dive into antiquity to secure proofs in support of this proposition. Society declares it a fact of common experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced...