Word: youth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred persons found places, each one seated and duly provided for the feast. On the left of the chair, the undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many...
...hundred persons found places, each one seated and duly provided for the feast. On the left of the chair, the undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class, of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many...
...upon politics as something beneath them. This is not true. Nineteen-twentieths of the students in Harvard must earn their own living after they leave the college. If they look askance upon politics, it is because politics does not offer them a living. He would be an ill-advised youth who would rush into the political arena in the vain hope of honorably wrestling therefrom a competence sufficient to maintain him in his early years of struggle. Where would he begin? At the bottom of the ladder; in the common council, perhaps. There he would receive no remuneration...
...immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave by her enticing suggestions to lay aside the winter garments. It was only yesterday morning that a large choir of coughers sang an inharmonious accompaniment to the minister's words, and then attempted to drown out the voice of the heavy basses and the airy, melodious tones...
...youth's first experience at Harvard under the present system, makes him feel as though, in some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature...