Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances of the young aristocracy, and the nameless air of academic refinement are the necessary and finishing requisites of an English gentleman. To be that is the ambition and aim of every well-born and well-bred English youth...
...intended to reflect upon the respectable Cantabrigians who pass through the yard daily on their way to and from their places of business or in pursuit of pleasure, for they know how to be have. But we do call especial attention to those who from their ignorance or youth are not to be expected to behave themselves unless repeatedly admonished-we mean the "muckers." Everyday during term-time the "mucker" is present in the yard in small or great quantities, and is so unrestrained by the usages of polite society that he be comes a positive nuisance...
...annual repetition, has each year varied." The Student attributes this state of affairs to the influence of the present policy of the faculty, and although it deprecates hazing, declares strongly in favor of some manifestations of college spirit. "We frankly admit that we do not admire the style of youth sans vim, sans enthusiasm, who would be a model in this modern school. The typical young man is enthusiastic, manly and generous, and a policy that destroys the material for class historians and crushes class enthusiasm and college precedent, will repel him from our doors. Our college authorities seem...
...stopping one pleased youth, she said...
...order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident to his acquiring a sheepskin, lost control of his appetite...