Word: lad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work with earnestness of purpose, and is quick to see and take advantage of his opportunities. It is useless to expect an attitude of this kind in the average boy of seventeen. Perhaps this is to be deplored, but whether it is or not the fact remains that a lad of this age does not take life seriously, he does not feel that society has any claim upon him, and he does not fully appreciate nor take the best advantage of the splendid opportunities that such a university as this offers him. It is to be remembered that...
...making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
Manliness is a quality that every lad longs to possess; it is his aspiration to be manly. And as he gets into school, he there tries to exemplify his conception of the word. But unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...
...been, and it became necessary for the authorities to institute a reform. President Quincy accordingly notified the Class-day committee of '38 that if there was any drinking or dancing on that day, the members of the committee would all lose their degrees. The class then decided to invite lad' and several members agreed to furnish spreads. This was permitted and in the afternoon the President removed his restriction on dancing and Class-day became a festival. Exhibition days had been for conviviality, but Class-day now appropriates this and the former soon died out. The Senior class began...
...Whitney repudiates the idea that we cannot have so good boy choirs as England is noted for. Choir masters in this country are understanding better the matter of vocal culture and it is found that the American boy can produce as good a musical tone as the English lad. "Stories of Salem Witchcraft" continue the interesting account of the trial and condemnation of witches during the seventeenth century. The writer cites many of the astonishing charges which were trumped up against the unfortunate victims and the terrible ordeals which they had to meet. It was not till 1693 that belief...