Word: youths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ambitions. 'Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,' is his cry, 'and unto Abraham your father.' Such an appeal is the privilege of those nations that have behind them a long and noble history. Other peoples have their sources of inspiration, new countries have the great stimulus of youth. But this is one of the privileges of honorable years...
...noted for his active work in all benevolent institutions, and held the offices of president of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, president of the Home for Aged Colored Women and trustee of the Asylum for Feeble-minded Youth. He was also an active member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society...
...Athletics are essential in colleges. - (a) "Mens sana in corpore sano." - (b) Youth the time for physical development. - (c) Without athletics students do not get sufficient physical exercise. - (1) City life, use of railroads, etc. - (2) No military training for youth as in European countries...
...last action of the Faculty on the question of intercollegiate football, a copy of which letter appeared in a New York daily. The commendable spirit which Mr. Brewer shows in advising quiet acquiescence in the vote of the Faculty, on the ground that age is wise and youth is foolish, is a new and strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life of the sport of football makes it desirable that all the friends of the game, - among whom the undergraduates...
...College House."Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties," is the title of a new book published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author, O. S. Marden, has taken for his theme the inevitability of success to any youth who has the grit and pluck to seize his opportunity and fight his way; that if he is really deserving he can neither be buried nor obscured; that the barriers are not yet erected which can say to aspiring talent, "Thus far, and no farther...