Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Presidents Porter, McCosh, Eliot and Barnard are each to have a paper in the Youth's Companion for next year entitled "Advice to Young Men Preparing for College...
...Lehigh Burr complains over the "cribbing" which goes on there, and attributes it to the extreme youth of the average student...
...when Alderman William E. Russell was nominated by the citizens of Cambridge for the office of mayor, and chosen by a strong majority over Mayor Fox, we took the ground that his selection, like that of Mayor Low in Brooklyn, was none the less wise because of his youth. He was only 27 years of age when elected, yet his administration has been so judicious and honest that his renomination on Saturday by the unanimous vote of the citizens' convention was looked for as a foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training to enter...
...between the college professor and the fitting school instructor which can be cured only by efforts on the part of both for natural confidence and helpfulness. The fitting school teacher really has the greater task, for he has to deal with the pupil when in the freshness of his youth and the ardor of his hope, and it is the impressions made at this period of life which are the most abiding...
...courses of this college show so distinctly as the courses in History the line which study at the university is coming to assume. The American youth is essentially a self-respecting animal, and feels himself possessed not only of the inherited talents of his grandfather, but also of the newly discovered wisdom of the present. Twenty-five or fifty years ago when History or Political Economy were but accessories to an intellectual development which owed nothing to them, the average college professor and the newly packeted, stamped, and delivered A. B. felt a high-born disdain for a study like...