Word: youth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Michelangelo, the son of one of the lesser nobles of the city of Florence, was born in 1475, at the time when the Italian Renaissance was at its height. As a youth he made but a poor scholar and at an early age was apprenticed to the artist Ghirlandajo, at whose workshop his masterful faculty at once asserted itself. Then for three years he lived at the Casa Medici where, under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, he had opportunity for personal contact with the most vigorous and influential minds of his age; and was enabled to feel the full...
...book, written by a distinguished Harvard man about one of Harvard's most famous professors, will have a peculiar interest for Harvard readers. Of greatest interest to them will be some hitherto uncollected facts as to Longfellow's life in Cambridge, while new information about the poet's youth and first literary efforts will appeal to all readers...
...volume is written with fluency and naturalness of style. Justly emphasized throughout is the Americanism of Longfellow; while he was the first among American poets to create for himself a world-wide fame, and added to our poetry great cosmopolitan richness, he was guided from youth to age by the strongest national feeling. The author also shows clearly the often unnoticed service of Longfellow--beyond the stimulus caused by the remarkable sweetness and cheerfulness of his life and poetry--that of being in an eminently practical country the first conspicuous representative of the literary life. Mr. Higginson's estimate...
...What Oxford can Teach Us," Mr. E. W. Warren '83 concludes that the English love manhood for itself and by itself, and their college system is best fitted to develop it. He thinks we have sacrificed it by submitting our children from infancy to the commonplaces of life. "Our youth uses its forces, English youth cherishes them...
...Yale University, honored teacher of American youth, Harvard University, her oldest comrade, sends by our lips and this writing, friendliest greeting and a hearty welcome to the third century of their common service...