Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Waltz, "Blooming Youth" Wiegan...
...Howe, last year president of the Harvard Monthly, has been appointed probationary editor of the Youth's Companion...
...possible selections," while at Harvard the unfortunate undergraduate is "practically turned out to grass, to nibble at his own sweet will." The Mail and Express, like a stern parent, suggests in the case of freshmen, that instead of placing the divining rod in the hand of that precious youth, it would be more fitting to apply it elsewhere. While we can hardly agree to all these opinions, there is nevertheless much good sense in this, and we feel that they do not apply to us only because of the unusual maturity of students at Harvard...
...inadequate police arrangements at Jarvis at every ball game. The inordinate longing of the average mucker to "steal in" never ceases, and he is eager to put his skill in this line into operation at every opportunity. The result is that a score or so of the Cambridge youth gain access to the grounds every afternoon that the nine plays. A little more care ought to be exercised until the nine gets on Holmes. A couple more policemen would obviate the difficulty, and the cost would be but a slight advance on that now paid...
...notice cannot rightly be passed by in silence. It has been the custom of some of the instructors to send the men in their courses postal cards giving notice of the marks received by them in their examinations. Some men, over-flowing with the jubilant spirits of youth, have seized this opportunity to "play tricks" on their follows, and have sent them bogus notices of their marks signed with some instructor's name. There is something essentially funny in this playfulness. We can hardly suppress a smile when we think of the sensation experienced by a man who has really...