Word: youth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...youth who, at dawn, through the meadows is roaming...
...more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general influence of this kind supplanting the former parental authority? Are there no signs of the laxity of unrestraint, with no stronger guide than the undeveloped character which youth itself supplies unaided...
...clouds of a century dim not thy youth...
...hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from college authority, and also to barbarize their tastes and habits. College-rows, and hazing experiences, and ribald and even...
...hear some dismally virtuous youth remark, "Unless we now improve our time, success in life will never be ours...