Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern Greek...
...impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand the chests and cultivate the biceps of American youth, but these benefits have been dearly purchased at the price of the invention of the exasperating "rah, rah, rah" which is now heard wherever two or three college students are gathered together...
...that fellows who come from the most refined class of people in the country must needs have rules, warnings, etc., before they can play a manly and honorable game ? But experience has shown the futility of relying on this spirit of manliness which is supposed to characterize the American youth. In a team selected purely for physical merit, there are sure to be one or two men who are insensible to the finer instincts which govern a gentleman's conduct. And the example set by them is only too apt to be followed, in the excitement of a hot game...
...three and nine, doubtless "hath charms to soothe the savage breast," but we are forced to say that either before or after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they...
...until quite recently that there were established any public institutions for the education of the Turkish youth except those common to Moslem countries, the Mahalle Mektebs or primary schools, and the Medresses or Mosque-Colleges. There have lately been founded in Constantinople, however, Rushdiyes or preparatory schools for those students who have finished the Mektebs. In these schools free instruction is given in the Turkish language, elementary arithmetic, Turkish history, and geography...