Word: youth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first the joy in our lives must be that of hope, of mere unfulfilled promise. Youth abounds in those qualities which are essential to this--that is, a sense of humor, unfailing sympathy, and faith. Hard it undoubtedly is to live almost wholly in what the future may bring. Much of the life about us seems vain and useless, and cannot help but be discouraging. Yet at heart the world is really hopeful, and the power to aspire remains with us long after we seem to have lost all ambition...
Dean Briggs has an article in the March Atlantic on the Transition from School to College in which he discusses the transition in personal character, broadly speaking, from youth to manhood, which the average Freshman undergoes. The average Freshman is considered as having "an ill-seasoned body, a half-trained mind, jarred nerves, his first large sum of money, all manner of diverting temptations, and a profound sense of his own importance." In this interesting condition he is dropped into the large, free college world, where study seems to be optional, so far as he can hear, and where...
Peer Gynt, an indolent, boastful Norwegian, indulged in youth by his mother, Aasse, leads a wild, roistering life. The element of irresponsibility and self-satisfaction in his character dominates the entire plot. Compelled to flee from the scene of his wild career, he takes refuges with the mountain trolls, but fearing to commit himself forever to their fantastic life, returns to his own people. From them his failings cause him to be exiled. He returns, however, in time to witness the death of his mother, after which he starts on a romantic quest after authority and empire. Next, Peer Gynt...
...four died out of 1772; in 1896-97, four out of 1754; in 1897-98, four out of 1819; and in 1898-99, three out of 1851. In concluding, the President remarks: "These facts tend to show that college students are in reality a picked body of youth physically, as well as mentally and morally...
...death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again, is worthy of the veriest tyro. But in the expression of subtle thoughts and emotions and in shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them in ourselves, the play is indeed the work of a master builder. Swinburne's poetry represents that transitionary stage between articulate ideas...