Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language. Even after they had corrected their first errors, they were considered eccentric, for they were beginning a serious and important literary movement. They did not merit the name of decadents, for their dream was to raise poetry to its more noble duties...
During the course of the lecture Mr. J. M. Horner, a baritone soloist, sang the following of Schubert's songs: 1. "Solitude." 2. (a)"The Warrior's Forbodings," (b)"The Wanderer's Night Song." 3. (a) "The Young Nun," (b) "The Post...
Villiers de I' Isle Adam was held in great respect by the young school, who considered him as a living protest against the naturalistic tendencies of the time, and as the incarnation of idealism. Although he was well known and admired by the young writers of the idealistic school, he was almost unknown to the public, as were Verlaine and Mallarme...
...circular requests each "officer of the University, old and young" to keep "During the month of March, 1900, a careful journal of his daily dings, recording faithfully, and in as much detail as he can, all that goes on from day to day, including his College work, his professional interests, his family relations, his amusements, in fact all the elements of his life. "Let him," says the circular, "imagine that he is writing without reserve to some friend at a distance who has been long absent from Cambridge, and who has lost touch with the ordinary current of life here...
Officers of the association for the ensuing year were elected as follows: A. G. Mason '00, president; F. M. Eshleman, Haverford, and J. E. Moore, Georgetown, vice-presidents; F. A. Young, New York University, secretary; and W. R. Quinn, Columbia, treasurer. A. G. Mason '00, J. D. Dana of Yale, H. H. Langenberg of Princeton, and C. L. McKeehan of Pennsylvania, were elected members of the executive committee. Oliver Shiras and W. B. Curtis were re-elected to their former positions...