Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bowditch, Physiological Defects of Vision; March 27, Prof. E. C. Pickering, The Distance of the Sun; April 3, Mr. John Fiske, A Common Origin of Languages; April 11, Prof. J. D. Whitney, Is the Earth's Climate changing? April 17, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Something about Young Fishes. Tickets will be ready in a few weeks...
...What's youth to my young...
...gives us great pleasure to call attention to the lectures to be given under the charge of the Finance Club, an announcement of which will be found in another column. It certainly shows a commendable amount of enterprise and activity on the part of such a young society to have made arrangements already for giving three lectures, and to have secured such good lecturers. Mr. Edward Atkinson is a practical business man of large experience, and has collected much interesting information upon the subject which he has chosen. The names of Professors Sumner and Walker are familiar to everybody...
...Courant has a very good article called "Smashing," which might very well have been written by a young lady, whether it is or not. The parody on "The Raven," in which the shade of Hallam is represented as suffering tortures on account of his "Constitutional History," is fairly good but nothing more. On boating prospects the Courant says...
...attentive listening I found this to be the lamentation of a select body of young men (being all spoiled children, they call themselves the S. Poils Society) over the shortcomings of their fellow-men (cribbing, cutting, etc.). This was getting too depressing to stand. I was not a pessimist then, and had no sympathy with this idea of total degeneration. I endeavored to cheer up by warbling "Landlord, fill the flowing bowl," but, as I don't sing, the result was n't encouraging. Without a word of remonstrance I left the room...