Word: youth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lied von der Glocke" is a lay of the life of man, beginning with birth and ending with death, portrayed through the process of bell-making. The bell celebrates the baptism of the representative of human life whose youth, wanderings, love, marriage, prosperity and misfortunes are told in the progress of the poem...
After reviewing the problems which seemed to confront his won youth and after mentioning the innumerable Harvard men who have put to splendid use faculties quickened by study, Major Higginson discussed the exigencies of the present generation. He said in part...
...Boys, you have a great, beautiful gift--the gift of glorious youth. It will net come to you again, and will slip through your fingers or bear abundant harvest, as you choose. See visions and dream dreams, and turn them into blessed realities...
...their fulfillment. The power of concentrated attention, a broad survey of the fields of study, together with a better knowledge of one's own powers and adaptations--these attainments, said Bishop Vincent, and most of all, intellectual discipline with the aim of symmetrical development, should be the ideals of youth. For mere mental vigor, without a well-balanced conscience, intellect, and will, is of little value...
Century--"The Youth of Washington," by S. W. Mitchell h.'86; "Waking," by C. Y. Rice...