Word: younger
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed...
...Solar Physics"; group 2--for the best essay on Biology, Geology or Anthropology, to A.F. Blakeslee, A.M. '00, for an essay entitled "Sexual Reproduction in the Mucorineae"; group 3--for the best essay on Ancient Languages or Literature, to D.P. Lockwood 2G., for an essay entitled "Pliny the Younger, an Appreciation...
...Harvard Year Book for 1905, which will be put on sale next week, contains leading articles by several public men, information concerning the various University activities and statistics of all organizations. The more important articles are as follows: "A Message to the Younger Generation of Harvard Men," by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt '80; "Theodore Roosevelt in College and Out," by Congressman G. C. Washburn '80; "The Famous Class of '81," by F. A. Tupper '80; "Why Harvard Men Follow Roosevelt," by Professor A. B. Hart '80; "The New Degree with Distinction," by Professor M. H. Morgan '81; "The Year with...
Louis XIV gave a large number of entertainments of every description. Plays and ballets were numerous, and in his younger days he often took part in them himself. In 1664, 1668, and 1674 entertainments were given which surpassed in magnificence anything that had been witnessed in Europe. In one case there were ten days of continuous gaiety of every description...
...filled chiefly with extracts from Roger Wolcott's Class Day Oration in 1870, is still of great interest to us today. In it he names "enthusiasm of heart and earnest of mind" as the two qualities demanded in the manhood of the times, and enters a plea for the younger generation to take more interest in the duties of citizenship...