Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BEFORE.There is a youth with curled mustache...
...former schoolmate of Gladstone at Eton says: "I recall him as a good looking, rather delicate youth, with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy and well-dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
...these fountains must depend on himself. If, beside opportunity, the college can furnish also the inspiration which shall make opportunity precious and fruitful, its work is accomplished. The college that fulfils these two conditions - opportunity and inspiration - will be a success, will draw to itself the frequency of youth, the patronage of wealth, the consensus of all the good. Nothing is so fatal to inspiration as excessive legislation. It creates two parties, the governors and the governed, with efforts mutually opposed; the governors seeking to establish an artificial order, the governed bent on maintaining their natural liberty. Professors should...
...details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something of the same spirit possessed the party of eight young ladies and gentlemen, who record that they were "locked in." The oblivion of youth heeded not the page's cry, "Library closed...
...hill back of the president's house has been utilized by the youth of Cambridge as a coasting ground...