Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Young man, can you tell me what those names over the alcoves mean...
...gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young...
...professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...
...young man of literary pretensions who attributed the inspiration of the lines in the Hanging of the Crane...
...lower courses, - noticeably, in the course in Differential Calculus. Over sixty men are taking this course, and are actually enthusiastic over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example, and if they would remember that their lectures are delivered to young learners and not to experienced critics, Mathematics at Harvard might become, as it ought to be, a means of pleasant and valuable instruction to a large number...