Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated. A youth at college should not be denied sufficient means, if his parents can afford to deal generously with him, to live well, but it is an unwise policy to keep his purse so full that he need never watch how the dollars go. That an unlimited supply of cash is likely...
...Harvard, at least in former years, has produced more writing men than her practical and sturdy rival. It was the custom of the elder sort to carry their literary wares to the market town adjacent. The new generation, however, with the keen instinct of youth, perceives that a broader life, a surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic...
Think not, O youth, that we would have thee cease...
...have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education of those to be placed under their charge...
Paris humor : Response of a gilded youth to one of his friends who has just announced formally his approaching marriage : "I should like to be able to congratulate you both, but, you see, as I do not know the lady I can't conscientiously congratulate you, while, as I do know you I can't conscientiously congratulate the lady." - [Progress...