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screntions young men.
The terms, Rebellion, conveys, and
was designed to convey the idea
of turbulence of spirit: resistance
to wholesome, just and necessary
law: an attempt to gain by
violence what does not belong
to those engaged in it.
For nearly all the thirty five young
men who left Phillips Academy
under that opprobrious spirit
I have ever entertained a kindly
regard and a sincere respect.
With the exception of two or three
they were not turbulent spirits.
but were law loving and law
abiding students. But they were
men and not boys. Their ages
ranged from 18 to 28 and { }
average considerably above ma-
jority. Their relations were
incongruous. They were men,