Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Youth,"- a new book by Alice Brown, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., publishers,- is, to say the least, interesting reading. It is a series of letters purporting to tell the story of a boy, who, isolated from the world during his youth, finds life a bitter disappointment. The story is well told, with a tender, though sad, picturing of nature and life. The author's conception of boy-life is at times a bit strained and unreal, but more often consistent and true to nature. The style is good throughout, and in places admirable. The author excels in word-painting, which...
...feeling is that a person who has enjoyed athletic sports cannot help enjoying them through life. Personally I prefer those sports which do not need an exaggerated development of muscle. They are more useful in youth and in later years. A man must continue the habit of athletic exercise through life. I do not like those sports which necessitate bodily collision, as well as those that do not. I consider those sports which can be maintained as a man grows older more advantageous...
...till then, and lasting through Monday, offers a programme which can be enjoyed in gentlemanly leisure, yet which will comfortably fill the now empty space, leaving Baccalaureate Sunday and the Tuesday before Commencement as days of peaceful rumination for the old grads., and of re-cuperation for the youth of both sexes...
Professor Gould was born in Boston in the year 1824, the son of the late Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Lucretia Dana Goddard. In his youth he showed a taste for botany and when but ten years old wrote a lecture upon electricity, and his subsequent school career was one of high distinction. At nineteen he graduated from Harvard and for five years studied here and abroad. His study of astronomy was pursued under Gauss and in the scientific courses of Paris, also in the observatory there, then under the direction of Arago. On returning to America he was employed...
...seriously consider it. Does the writer stamp as "foolish" the meetings which the men have carried through to give voice to their convictions (as men striving for culture and learning) at this critical moment in the country's history, because they were carried through with the natural enthusiasm of youth, or because it is foolish for such men to express their opinions? Why are we "supposedly unpolitical Harvard men"? Does the Advocate claim that centres of learning such as this University should not exert influence in public life? Does not the writer know the effect which universities have...