Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard College is not a dye tank into which the youth of the country are plunged and then emerge all of one color. No; the influence a college course will have on a young man depends, in a great measure, on the man himself...
...most noticeable feature of the programme last night was the quartet in C minor, op. 1, by A. Ritter. The composer is young and the work exhibits some of the commonest faults of youth. In trying to be original he fails in point of clearness and simplicity. Discords abound throughout. The last movement is in the form of a triple figure, while the second presents a curious combination of fugal and romantic treatment. With all the repelling feature there are indications that a second hearing would develop others more interesting. The rendering of the quartet was all that could...
...searching after knowledge, without having all the unpleasant elements of a lower life thrust upon them. In these days to study is not only to study, but to grow unpleasantly wise in the ways of the world. The Harvard college yard was not laid out for the sportive Cambridge youth; the college itself was not founded that merchants and dealers might make fortunes; and above all, the college buildings were not erected that "peddlers, beggars, traders and book-agents" might have a convenient field in which to go harvesting; but, nevertheless, yard, college, and buildings are grossly misused in these...
...fault in our college papers is the fault of youth. We are too ambitious; we try to do too much. A few here may be profound; but the most of us are not. Yet all may strive for sincerity. Lion skins are proverbially poor garments...
...been started afresh by some talk on the subject at a recent reunion of the Yale alumni in Springfield, Mass. The great difficulty about reaching a just conclusion is the lack of sufficient trustworthy data. Startling stories are told as to the extravagant sums which are spent by rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light...