Word: young
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...school. While we do not care to take up a discussion of the purely educational advantages which the two kinds of schools may often offer in different degrees there is one argument urged in behalf of the boarding school which we wish to discredit; the argument, namely, that a young boy, by the experience of a boarding school life, is made manly, self-reliant, independent. The words are often used with very little distinction, but the underlying idea is that the boy at an early age begins to enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers...
...intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best get at home, is the foundation of ideal on which his life is to be built, and on the strength of which depends not only his pleasure but his success when he at last comes to shift for himself. There...
...play is in two acts. Scene I opens in Arcadia with a chorus of men and maidens singing a bridal song, Proserpina enters and soon after her comes Ceres who tries to persuade Proserpina to marry Exemplicus, the model young man. Proserpina hates him but is finally persuaded and they go off to make arrangements for the wedding. In the meantime Pluto and Venus enter. Venus tells Pluto that Proserpina whom he loves is engaged to Exemplicus. They arrange, however, that Cupid shall wound Proserpina with a dart, and thus cause her to fall in love with the first...
...Brice.Exemplicus, a very good young...
SONG RECITAL. - One of the most interesting recitals announced this season is that of Miss Marie Brema, the mezzo soprano of the Damrosch German Opera Co., and Mr. Plunket Greene, the noted young basso, who will be heard at Music Hall next Tuesday afternoon, April 9th. Miss Brema has been the artistic sensation of the year both in New York and Boston, and the demand for her services outside the opera has been very large. Mr. Greene has made a splendid name for himself both in England and America for his oratorio work and artistic ballad singing, and the combination...