Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began preparation for college younger," when "schools were not yet nurseries," and when students "liked books that made them think." (Dickens and De Quincey). Nestor's boast of the prowess of his youthful days is paralleled at last. Yes, the youth then were more mature and (individually) they wore Indian blankets, made by the Bay State Mills, in chapel; and there then prevailed "a high, keen, intellectual energy among us all." But why continue such quotations? No true Harvard student can fail...
...these guests you, the graduates of Harvard College, bid hearty welcome. But who shall welcome the welcomers? You need no welcome here. Familiar rooms and paths, hands of comrades and friends, joyous and tender memories, and the visions of your youth have welcomed...
...committee of forty, two only beside myself are left, the prominent lawyer of Boston, Sidney Bartlett, and our illustrious poet who gave the charming little song upon that occasion and who has given a noble poem upon this occasion and who, we all rejoice to perceive, has renewed his youth like the eagle, after that brilliant flight across the Atlantic and that rapturous reception by old England. [Applause...
...consideration for the extreme youth of the class fund, the committee have decided to make this a subscription dinner, and the price has been fixed at $2.50, in commemoration of the two-fiftieth anniversary of the college...
...Alma Mater; mature in youth, vigorous in age, illustrious always...