Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of my few terms at Hebron Academy was that I entered Harvard College in 1853, at fourteen years of age. . . . I look back upon my college education with less satisfaction than any other part of my life. I was not thoroughly fitted. I was too young. The mistake was made, with a well-meant but mistaken view of saving me from the 'dangers of college life,' of boarding me for the first two or three years a mile away from the college--as if there were any dangers or, if there were, as if the best part...
...household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death is very near his daughter who is ill. The last play is a typical French farce. A young man pretends to be deaf to win the good graces of the father, also deaf, of a young lady whose hand he wishes...
...Most young men have little knowledge of military matters and seems to have an idea that joining the militia is like going to jail for a period of three years--that it is impossible to get out before the end of the term. This is absolutely untrue. A man may be discharged at any time for business reasons or upon removal of his place of abode. The two chief requisites are attendance at camp for a period of eight days in summer (where, by the way, one will get more real work than at Plattsburg) and attendance at drills once...
...young man who cares to look into the matter will be very welcome at any of the State Armories and if he will ask for an officer and talk the matter over with him. I believe he will at once become interested. Officers can be found at all the armories on almost any evening...
...December 14-and 16. The play, "The Perverseness of Pamela," by Virginia Church, is a delightfully keen comedy in three acts, dealing with the social intrigues and amusing side of life at a well-known army post. The chief figure, of course, is Pamela, an irresistible, charming, incorrigible young lady who keeps everyone in a high state of excitement. This play was highly commended by the judges of the Craig Prize competition. Miss church, having lived at an army post in Virginia, knows her subject well...