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scientious young men.

The term, Rebellion, conveys, and
seems designed to convey the idea
of turbulence of spirit; resistance
to wholesome, just and necessary
law; an [crossed out] 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 epithet
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 would
average considerably above ma-
jority. Their relations were
incongruous. They were men,