Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was the usual large attendance at Vespers yesterday afternoon. The service was conducted by Rev. George A. Gordon, assisted by Dr. F. G. Peabody. Mr. Gordon spoke briefly from the text,- "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth." To get a vivid idea of God and of our duty toward Him, we must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises...
...moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths they slip by unheeded. It is of inestimable importance we learn early in life to develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth and old age to this search if we wish to find truth in its symmetry, beauty and grandeur. The Lord will not mock our aspirations or our wants if asked in faith and reverence." The anthems, which were much better than customary, were "Hearken unto Me, My People," by Sullivan...
...After the war, the great colleges advanced with a step which kept pace with the highest progress of the age. Yale's new president. with his youth, experience, administrative talent and popularity, became the responsible manager of all departments and the sole administrator of the young republic...
...From it we viewed for the first time that beatific vision of the New Haven student, the New Haven girl; and whenever we return, no matter how long have been the intervening years, she looks as fresh and beautiful as if she had drunk at the fountain of perennial youth...
...command of money, with no experience of providing for the future, they are given a month or six months' allowance, and the parent is surprised at the end of the year to find the boy in trouble and debt. A boy should be taught to accept during his youth the discipline of his environment, for no college can guarantee to each student individual superintendence over the formation of character; it can only supply the best intellectual training...