Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890 by Various
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 99. November 1, 1890. MODERN TYPES. (_BY MR. PUNCH'S OWN TYPE WRITER._) NO. XXI.--THE AVERAGE UNDERGRADUATE. Those who live much in the society of the very middle-aged, hear from them loud and frequent complaints of the decay of courtesy and the general deterioration, both of manners and of habits, observable in the young men of the day. With many portentous shakings of the head, these grizzling censors inform those who care to listen to their wailings, that in the time of their own youth it was understood to be the duty of young men to be modest, considerate, generous in their treatment of one another, and chivalrous in their behaviour to women. And every one of them will probably suggest to his hearers that he was intimately acquainted with at least one young man who fulfilled that duty with a completeness and a perfection never since attained. Now, |
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