Word: youthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have signed his name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family connection were tradespeople, but his mother by her marriage came into possession of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far reaching consequences...
Next to this interesting specimen stood a young man who was informing him that "he had just returned from a capital little spread at Smith's you know, awful jolly set of fellows, capital time," etc. This convivial youth, we were told, was a Divinity Hall theolog, which fact, taken in connection with his subsequent behavior, we found a little difficult to believe...
...actual experiment, continued long enough to show positive results. The experience of other countries will not serve us, for in every case there will be found governmental oversight of universities or some condition which does not obtain in the United States. The discretion which President Eliot thinks a youth is able to exercise at 18 is not recognized in law as suitable for him until he is 21. In the preparatory schools a choice of studies is not allowed him. Should he, after graduation, enter a school of law, medicine or theology, he will find that he is not suffered...
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth...
They may be justly regarded as the picked youth of the country, many of them coming from the best families in point of culture and breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...