Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek...
...historic significance. Jesus did destroy, but His purpose was to plant, to create. If He destroyed existing institutions He established still better ones. He was no iconoclast. Especially at the present day was there a need for paying heed to this constructive side of Christ's work. Young men were inclined at present to be iconoclastic. They forgot that though destruction is easy, construction is a slow and painful process. A man's religion might be fetichism but it might be the best that he was able to have. To destroy it without putting something better in its place...
...FRED W. WHITAKER, of Whitaker & Co., Tailors, 43 Conduit street, London, W., has arrived at Young's Hotel, Boston, with special samples for spring and summer. He will be there until March 9. Appointments by letter. Hotel hours...
...late about the overwhelming importance which intercollegiate athletics have come to assume in the college world. I am myself one of those who feel that the apotheosis of the athlete has gone too far; he has been set on too high a pedestal. The fault is not with the young men themselves. Indeed, what impresses me the most is, that in spite of all this publicity and laudation they should bear themselves with such becoming and attractive modesty. How is it possible for any young man to see things in their true proportions, to feel that athletic prowess though...
...Southern Club of Harvard University will have its annual dinner at Young's Hotel, February...