Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...human power can ever conquer it. It displays itself despite every effort to hide it beneath a flimsy veil that sentiment may weave. When the Golden Age again sheds its brightening beams upon mankind, when virtue again reigns supreme throughout the world, and when, what is most important, youth ceases to be youth and loses all the characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that make it youth, then perhaps this good, kind preacher may tell us that we would be better, purer and more fitted to wear the augelic wings if we would only let "exalting, refining womanhood stand...
...following article on amateur boxing from the N. Y. Sportsman will be of interest : The youth who can use his hands well will rarely resort to a knife or a pistol, as the fist is much quicker than any concealed weapon, and, like the Irishman's shillelagh, never misses fire. The simple fact that boxing teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust...
...this time have thrown their fortunes with the hall. One thought of the old proverb, that rats forsake a sinking vessel, when on all sides one heard the men express their determination to leave. To such we would give the advice of Horace Greely to the giddy youth about to marry, "Don't." If the hall is once closed, when once we have been compelled to submit to the extortions of Cambridge boarding-house keepers, to undergo the miseries of poor cooking and worse service, then we shall probably appreciate the beauties and advantages of the university commons...
...colleges in England." The exchange editor (presumably) makes this comment: "The contributor of the best articles, both in prose and verse, is the editor, Winthrop Mackworth Praed ; a name which will hereafter be distinguished in English literature, if the productions of his maturity correspond with the promise of his youth." That exchange editor and successful prophet was J. O. Sargent, at present an overseer of the university. An appeal for the reading-room on page 64 we are tempted to transfer bodily and apply to the present day ; it would fit very well...
...Philadelphia Item, speaking of the plot of the new play, "Youth," says: "Any gentleman with a bad digestion could conceive an equally entangled and unpleasant one in an ordinary after-dinner...