Word: young
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...experiment is one which ought to succeed, and it is to be hoped that no false pride or diffidence on the part of young women will prevent their profiting by its advantages. In many respects the advantages of a course of study pursued at a distance, and in anticipation of an examination before a board of University examiners, are superior to one pursued on the spot, For, in the first place, the surroundings can be made more conducive to study, and the mind, freed from the educational machinery of a college, can derive more enjoyment and consequently more benefit from...
...generally exaggerated, or at least duly appreciated, and the consequence is a more thorough and extended preparation. The certificates given to successful candidates will be worded so as to cover the different degrees of merit, and will in time, we hope, prove a far more valuable recommendation of a young lady than any slip-shod boarding-school accomplishments...
...learned the secret, - Charley, young and easy...
...Packer Quarterly comes to us with its dashing blue covers and neatly printed pages, so enticing withal (we know it is edited by young ladies), that we fain would praise it. But our conscience scarcely permits us to do that, so we content ourselves with criticising what seem to us faults in its articles. The first part is heavily critical and religious; the poems are, to say the least, tame, and after every essay there seem to be printed the words, "Haec fabula docet." What articles are not of this nature are the merest society twaddle. Servant-girls and babies...
...Where my young spirit with its glories came...