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This suggests extremely high levels of estrogen within the Harvard community — and a corresponding culture of effeminancy.
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Thus some complain that it is a gloomy religion; others go to the opposite extreme and accuse it of pointing to a state of perpetual chocolate cream; yet again it is attacked on grounds of effeminancy, it is upbraided as being fond of a sickly sentimentalism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke
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Such stories we cannot use, "though an error on that side is better than effeminancy."
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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