Word: boyhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Bocher delivered a lecture on "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" yesterday afternoon. He said that Moliere compounded the plot from two stories that were current in his boyhood. Similar tales were common even as far back as the Sanskrit. The names of the characters are thoseth at Moliere kept on hand, and used in various plays for persons of the same general character: thus Geronte was always a disagreeable...
...From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter to tend his bookstall. The boy refused from pride. The man, half a century afterward, found himself in Litchfield on the anniversary of that day; he was missed...
Last evening in Sever 5, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors for the Bowdoin Prizes, read his dissertation on "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time." The first part of the dissertation treated in an exhaustive manner of the boyhood and development of the Emperor Julian, his relation toward Christianity and to Paganism, and his contact with Neo-Platonism. The second part deals with the great Pagan reaction of the fourth century, with the immensity of the task to which Julian's religious beliefs had brought him, and with his ultimate failure...
...early boyhood of Mr. Bolles was spent in rural New England. Later his family moved to the south, where he lived for several years in Baltimore and Washington. When twenty years old he entered the Law School of the Columbian College, D. C., where he spent three years, graduating in 1879 with the degree of LL.B. He then came to Harvard and entered the Law School. While at Harvard he founded the Daily Echo, one of the first of the college dailies, and later, by his essay on "International Arbitration," secured the Bowdoin Prize. In addition to his law course...
...From his boyhood, Mr. Chaillu said, he had been fond of animals, and had then learned how to preserve them. He was eager to go into the wildest parts of the world, and when seventeen, set sail for Africa...