Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Well, sir, I should think they would! Good-day, Mr. Porter," and the president departed, saying nothing more, for he always wisely allowed for the existence of a certain amount of human nature in ingenious youth...
...fact that the element of chance is now divorced from the employment. We can hardly doubt that the fascination attaching to the chance of one day receiving a quarter in payment for his labor, although receiving the next day nothing but thanks, must be great to the youth of the street, educated in the school of dime-novel literature. Hereafter we cannot look to be favored with the presence of these youths, save when they are found among the great unnumbered outside the fence at a match game of ball...
...editors of the Yale College Literary Magazine, an enterprising youth from Sioux City Iowa, has been caught publishing one of Tom Moore's poems over his own signature and has resigned his position, while the upper grade societies to which he belonged are nearly crazy with excitement...
...subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among the youth of the State schools in France. Most of the lycees were in old time richly endowed schools under monastic rule; they had large playgrounds, and in those days French boys were adepts in all sorts of games. But when the church lands were confiscated in 1792 the great schools temporarily...
...interest and value of the Greek literature and the excellent quality of the instruction, the Greek department counts three students for every two in the Latin. German and French or Political Economy and Italian stand in the same mutual relation. In fact, the hypothesis that the American youth is so foolish and so short-sighted that he will inevitably choose easy and useless studies in preference to useful and difficult ones finds no support in experience...