Word: youth
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Gibbon's ambition from early youth, he said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
...They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...
...request laid before it by the President, has warmly endorsed a plan to establish commercial instruction in the leading state universities and other institutions in states where no such universities exist, so that the science, as well as all the arts of commerce may be taught to the youth of the country
...atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre is irresistible...
...Carruth p.'89; "The Making of Religion," by S. M. Crothers h. '99; "Annotated Rules of the Federal Counts of the United States," by W. W. Dewhurab '75; "From the Isles," by A. D. Ficke '04; "The Castles and Keeps of Scotland," by F. R. Fraprie '98; "Youth," by G.S. Halt p. '78; "Venetian Life," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "Quantitative Punctuations," by J. D. Logan '94; "Whose Home is in the Wilderness," by W. J. Long '92; "Athens and About There," by P. S. Marden l. '98; "Cathedral Cities of France," by H. L. Marshall '02; "Abroad...