Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...academic benches are, the world over. In the halls of the Berlin University smoking is forbidden, but at Leipzig smokers sometimes forget to extinguish their cigars before reaching the lecture room, and light them before leaving. German students have everywhere the same general appearance, and like the German youth as a whole are rarely as well dressed as English or Americans, even where the clothes are good. The unbecoming flat caps with their varying colors serve to distinguish the society men, although a similar baoge is also conimonm the lower schools...
...maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting to see Miss Sangbleu of Old Cambridge come up, perennially blooming, year after year, to deposit one cent for each of the callow youth who have fallen victims to her charms! And what a fund would Miss Sangblen then create, before, in the course of time, her attractions would finally cease to do execution...
...heartache, and calm the palpitating Bosom of some love sick youth! 'tis a consummation...
...universities is the class of unfortunates who come up every year regularly to try the entrance examinations, fail with equal regularity, and settle down again to "pots and pipes" with a patient resignation that is at once ludicrous and melancholy. Mos of these men have lost the flush of youth, the beards of some are streaked with gray, yet as they have long since parted with their early ambition they are perfectly contented with their...
...option of ancient and modern history, but if a choice could be made, the American and English history of the past 200 years should be taught at the preparatory schools. It is a question whether the progress necessary in public schools can be obtained without optional studies. A youth of 18 cannot obtain even a fair mastery over all the subjects which today are offered for a secondary education. Those who think otherwise think that the five languages, mathematics, history, and all the other studies can be acquired if the boys would only use all the time at their disposal...