Word: youths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...elect them is very small; in none of them was there an enrolment last year above twenty and the average was below seven. Small additions to such enrolment cause little or no inconvenience. Then too, the men and women who would take these courses are generally past their youth, with matured intellectual interests, and oftentimes with considerable experience of work in the world outside. The new arrangement would cause no awkwardness...
...nature. Every man should learn to value and to use his own individuality. It is a priceless gift, next in sequence of value to honor and health. It is the one power which all possess and which may lead to permanent renown: and if in his youth a man tries to put it from him, he comes as near as may be to the intellectual standard of that "base Indian" who "threw away a pearl richer than all his tribe...
This early work has the appearance of youth, it seems undeveloped, unfinished in style, but it brings with these qualities the fire, earnestness and frankness of youthful enthusiasm. The constant aim of these independent workers was to paint what they saw as they saw it. Art in this early period of the Renaissance is comparable to a great uncut diamond which appears in the sixteenth century cut and ready for polish, but it is not until the seventeenth century that we see the jewel in its perfection. After the seventeenth century the diamond degenerates into a mere imitation...
...Reform depends upon the awakened intelligence and moral sense of the community, and every youth at the University who desires to know his duty as a citizen in respect to a question which seems likely soon to become the most prominent subject of debate in our national politics should be present at the meeting...
...Youth, Mr. Camp said is the time when the body receives its greatest development, and much importance should be attached to the means for obtaining the best development of the body that is possible. Exercise then ought to be made a pleasure rather than a duty, both to the boy and to the college man, for after leaving college vigorous exercise is either relaxed or wholly given...