Word: boyhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard, we say, has passed her childhood; the worries of her teething are over, and she is fairly weaned. The ecclesiastical nurses so kind to her in her tender years have let her go at last-somewhat reluctantly. She knows, meanwhile, that she could not have passed her boyhood without their help, and her relations with them are sure to remain kindly. There is no talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs...
...does not have the spontaneity of the most of his verse. It is hard and slightly mechanical. "The Decline of Duty," by George Frederic Parsons, is an ethical paper, which gives evidence of much deep thought and is a valuable study. Mr. J. Elliot Cabot's article upon the boyhood of Emerson is already widely known from the extracts which have been published in other journals. It adds a great deal to the knowledge of Emerson's character. The regular installments of the serial articles now running in the "Alantic" filled up the rest of the number...
...habit of reading has become absolutely essential to a successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit is not gained by college men during the years they spend at college they will never acquire it. "Read," said an old monk to Anselm in his boyhood; "read my son, for by reading only mayest thou attain success." And to this advice vigorously followed may be ascribed the marvelous acuteness of intellect and stern application to study which so distinguished this keenest of reasoners...
...largest audience that has yet attended this course was present last evening in Sever 11 to hear Prof. Paine's lecture and illustrations on Beethoven. The lecturer began with a short sketch of the stormy and unhappy life of the greatest of all musical geniuses,- his unhappy boyhood, and still more miserable manhood, embittered by the heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection...
...grand climax of the book, the part which should be strongest, is not equal to the steps by which we approach it, and the book leaves a sense of something wanting, a promised strength which is not forthcoming. It also lacks unity, and the first chapters, treating of the boyhood of Beverly, present anecdotes of him, which entirely fail to delineate his character with any vividness. One might also think that the Italian language was not a common study for a boy of ten or twelve, in the New England of fifty years...