Word: youthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is a strange bit of pathos in the thought of this self-exiled wanderer giving half of all he had that the youth of a strange land might be taught. He was the first in this country who gave liberally to further general education, an act the importance of which is now inestimable...
...instructors of the youths were divided into two classes, and all had an equal social position in the democracy. Their places of instruction were built together and there the youth of Athens spent their days; one class taught how to search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself. The young men arrived in the morning early and soon were engaged in the forenoon bath, which is, perhaps, too much neglected by our trainers. This occupied over an hour, for they took hot and cold baths, then a swim, and finally the more fastidious youths appointed themselves...
Joseph Cook in his last Monday's lecture at Tremont Temple has given his ideas of what should be the habitual train of thought of college youth. He should try, Mr. Cook insists, to keep alive the celestial fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character...
...Henschel's accompaniment was exquisite, and the audience responded with enthusiasm, calling Miss Beebe out four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner selections previously given in the course. Labyrinthian in its construction, and delightfully startling in its cadences, it is instinct with the spirit of the dead master. Still it is impossible...
AFTER.There is a youth with shaven face...