Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wordsworth are, as it were, bracketed. To know the poet it is necessary to see the man. His boyhood was passed in close contact with nature, he came to have an intimate acquaintance with all the lake country, and to love it with the healthy love of a country boy without moody self-consciousness or sentimental effusiveness. It was the all important period of his life when his philosophy of life and poetry was determined...
...given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early driven by lameness to seek occupation different from those of other boys, and he turned to literature. He was descended from a long line of true Scotch men and he loved Scotland and everything about it. His eyes...
...Locke has been very successful in preparing for this cantata, and the singing of yesterday reflects great credit on his careful and conscientious work. The solo singing was excellent, and that of Newton Wilcox remarkable for its good taste and expression. He is one of the best boy sopranos in Boston and he sang with expression, being especially successful in the recitatives and the beautiful duet "Love divine!" Mr. Parker and Mr. Meyn were all that could be desired. The singing of the choruses was marked by decision and careful phrasing. At the end of the service the congregation, which...
...speculator is not much different from the boy who makes some bold dash for victory in his games. The close man who takes the outward things in earnest acts in a foolish manner. It is as if the children in the market place should take their artificial money for real and horde it away. You have a contempt for the boy who looses his temper at play; we should take an example from this in real life...
...meeting of the Graduate Club last evening, Professor Von Jagemann and Dr. Richards talked in an informal and thoroughly delightful manner of the customs of German universities, as they appeal to American interest. There is no comparison possible between German universities and American colleges. The German boy gains his training in nine years solid work in the gymnasium, as it is called. When he enters a university he leaves general education behind and devotes himself to one particular object...