Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...personally seen so little of this estrangement that I cannot write on it intelligently, if it does exist. One of the best things I have gained from my teaching has been the friendship of students; one living among eternal youth--for undergraduates represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself stay young. There are few professors whom I have known who do not enter deeply into the lives of some students on the purely personal side, and many have possessed real genius in friendship. I wonder how often the student who fails to find such friendship here has but himself to blame
...treatment a work of Beethoven which is intensely subjective and even, as far as absolute music can be, definitely autobiographic. It is well known that the Fifth Symphony was composed at a time when Beethoven was most unhappy because of the breaking off of his engagement to a beautiful young girl, and was consequently pouring out his grief and his despair in impassioned music. In fact, the first movement of this symphony is literally a musical expression of the struggle between Fate and the human soul. But Beethoven's wonderful music is never narrowly personal. Its great influence with...
Yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel Professor W. W. Fenn, S.T.B. '84, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the Senior class, his text being: When the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful for he was one that had great possessions...
...usually grieve not because they have but because they lack great possessions, said Dean Fenn, and yet this clean, ardent, and dutiful young man who ventured to say to Jesus, and doubtless with entire sincerity, that he had kept all the commandments, was completely changed in his attitude toward himself and his possessions by a single sentence from the lips of Jesus. In considering the requirement of Jesus in this case, Christendom has unfortunately fastened its attention not upon the essential but almost exclusively upon the accidental element, for the point of his command lies in the "Come, follow...
...different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing to be done in the world which is and probably always will be unremunerative and which on that account offers an attractive opportunity to young men of wealth. There are few joys in life to be compared with sustained interest in some in- tellectual pursuit. Yet young men of wealth often miss this gladness and fall far short of their possibilities, because their possessions encourage laziness...