“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

—  John Jay Chapman

Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)

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