Word: young
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...niver a nater young fillow...
...good run at this theatre for the last week or two. The comedy is one of Taylor's, and is, on that account, very attractive; but the "comic force" seems, to us at least, to lose its intensity and to flag in interest in some places. That a young wife, crossing the ocean alone, may make time pass pleasantly by flirting with one or two elderly gentlemen, or that some one gentleman may be tired of his wife, is not unlikely; but when all the passengers seem to have a touch of some kind of matrimonial infelicity or another...
...years 1870, 1871, and 1872, he says, "This large number rejected at Harvard only shows that the examination there was rigid, while the larger number rejected at Yale only shows, of course, that the candidates examined at Yale were more poorly prepared"; and he furthermore adds, "A young man" [a single example only is cited] "was refused admission to the Sophomore class at Yale for deficiency of preparation. He went directly to Harvard College, offered himself as a candidate for the Junior class there, and was admitted." There is more truth, perhaps, in the first of these quotations than...
...undergraduates of Harvard College freedom in regard to attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises"; and further along he adds, "We all know that he" [the undergraduate] "should arrive at that freedom at some time; the only question is when." We agree with him exactly. He thinks young men, collegians from eighteen to twenty-two years of age, incompetent to decide upon such matters. This is a question open for discussion...
...anything else. It is the unavoidable concomitant of every struggle where all cannot win, and does more good than harm. It may be said that the fame of winning this scholarship will be a partial inducement to the contesting student. Such will undoubtedly be the case until young saints come to college and human weaknesses are known only to the uneducated...