Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indigent youth with his recommendations for charity is again meandering about college...
...half a dozen universities, thus studying under the most famous professors in the branches he is pursuing, gaining the direct influence of the best thought of Germany, besides attaining a wide experience in all parts of his fatherland. It will be a great thing for American scholarship when the youth of America are able to do the same - spending, say, in the course of their university career, successive terms in New England, the Middle States, the sunny South, the great Northwest and on the Pacific coast. The broadening influence of such a course upon the young American of the future...
...Boston Theatre Company made a decided bit in "Youth," at Baltimore last evening...
...nice young men of London have hit upon a new craze. Labouchere, of Truth, says: "I observed a young man with unmistakable rogue upon his cheeks. I am told that the fashion of making up the complexion is by no means unknown among our gilded youth...
...English universities have broken down under the mental strain produced by their studies, searching investigations are being made into the entire system of instruction and requirements for degrees. If the stolid and hearty English frame cannot bear up under such an intense strain, how can we expect our American youth, with its constitutionally nervous temperament, to endure a long continued and severe course of study? Our burdens are continually growing heavier, owing to the ambitious rivalry between our colleges; will it not soon be found out that everything cannot be taught a man in a course of four years...