Word: youth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors intolerable. There is one parlor story, "Cupid's Ladder," by Mr. W. C. Greene, which leaves the hero proposing to the wrong sister, but does not inspire in us any curiosity to know what came of it. We are curious, however...
Thus as I look back upon the presence of Professor Norton, I think of his ideal of excellence, of his kindness, and of his courage,--qualities to be commended to the youth of Harvard College which he loved...
...Henry Newton Sheldon, jurist, in youth a lieutenant in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for twenty-eight years a legal practitioner in Boston, for fourteen years past a learned and independent Massachusetts judge, now on the Supreme bench...
There are good lines in all these pieces, but the combination would have been greatly helped by at least one poem in lighter vein, more in consonance with the spirit of youth...
...estrauges student and professor from helpful human relations. I have personally seen so little of this estrangement that I cannot write on it intelligently, if it does exist. One of the best things I have gained from my teaching has been the friendship of students; one living among eternal youth--for undergraduates represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself stay young. There are few professors whom I have known who do not enter deeply into the lives of some students on the purely personal side, and many have possessed real genius in friendship. I wonder how often the student who fails...