The original purpose of Queen's College was to " educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences " and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church The college admitted its first students in 1771 — a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor — and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

The central figure in the college's incorporation was Matthew Harkins, Bishop of Providence, who sought an institution which would establish a center of advanced learning for the Catholic youth of Rhode Island.

As a youth, he had access to the private libraries of Judge James Witherell and Congressman Matthew Lyon in nearby Fairhaven, Vermont, as well as that of Alexander Cruikshanks of Whitehall, New York.

Soon after, in 1867, these schools consolidated to form the Howard School following the vision of the Freedmen ’ s Bureau chief General Oliver O. Howard who erected a building on a tract of land generously donated by seven prominent African-American men – Matthew N. Leary, Andrew J. Chestnutt, Robert Simmons, George Grainger, Thomas Lomax, Nelson Carter, and David A. Bryant – who together paid $ 136 for two lots on Gillespie Street in Fayetteville and formed among themselves a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees to maintain the property for the education of local black youth.

The Matthew Shepard Story is a 2002 award-winning television film by director Roger Spottiswoode based on the true story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-years-old gay youth who was murdered in 1998, victim of a gay hate crime.

Enfield's parody of Radio One's increasing irrelevance to the youth audience it supposedly catered for was a factor in 1990s controller of Radio One Matthew Bannister's decision to terminate the employment of many old presenters.

Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Clarke started his career with the Wolverhampton Wanderers youth system alongside his twin brother Matthew and after being released by the club the pair signed for Third Division outfit Halifax Town in July 1999.

Boyce spent three years playing for Luton's youth team, where he played alongside Gary Doherty and Matthew Upson.

Oster started his career at Grimsby Town and had progressed through the youth ranks at the club and was inducted into the first team in the same youth squad as players such as Danny Butterfield, Matthew Bloomer and Daryl Clare.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

The dead youth was identified as Robert E. Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir., Aj.

Hospital officials said the injury was severe but the youth was in good condition last night.

No effort is made in the same studies to present information on regional or national demand trends in these skills or to consider whether regional or national demands for other skills might provide much better opportunities for the youth to be trained.

Seeing the man he blamed for this made much of -- youth and bitterness and --

Spending much of his youth on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine, he had trouble with geometry, being unable to understand the abstraction necessary to imagine that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented a mathematical point, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow on the end was meant to stretch off to infinity.

These " discotheques " were also patronized by anti-Vichy youth called ' zazou ' who much like the kids in the USA during the 1940s were wearing zoot suits.

" However, Wheelock primarily intended the College to educate white youth and the few Native students that attended Dartmouth experienced much difficulty in an institution ostensibly dedicated to their education.

With the increased costs of good kits moving upward and entertainment competition for youth moving more towards computers and video gaming in the home, the average age of the avid hobbyist is now much older than ever before — with adults making up the vast majority of enthusiasts.

In 1931 he admitted: " In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing — thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn.

Shy in his youth, he spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college, he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines.

Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.

Landis spent much of his youth in Indiana ; he left school at fifteen and worked in a series of positions in that state.

Philip II spent much of his youth as a hostage at Thebes, where he studied under the renowned general Epaminondas, whose reforms were the basis for the phalanx.

He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.

Sanger was the sixth of eleven children, and spent much of her youth assisting with household chores and caring for her younger siblings.

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

Right-wing youth are much more prone to the ideas of Pan-Slavism.

Irenaeus, who had heard him preach in his youth, said of him: " a man who was of much greater weight, and a more steadfast witness of truth, than Valentinus, and Marcion, and the rest of the heretics ".

In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

He had spent much of his youth on the family's estate and only joined the army in the 360s, participating with his brother in the Persian campaign of Emperor Julian.

Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer had spent much time in his youth in the New Mexico area, and suggested the Los Alamos Ranch School on the mesa.

He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece.

As in much of the popular fiction that Heinlein would have been familiar with in his youth ( e. g., Tarzan and The Virginian ), the theme is that the wilderness acts as a magnifying glass to amplify the inherent differences between the best and the worst of the human race.

As Claire Raines points out in ‘ Beyond Generation X ’, “ never before in history had youth been so idealized as they were at this moment .” When Generation X came along it had much to live up to and to some degree in the shadow of the Boomers, sometimes compared and / or criticized (‘ spoiled ’, ‘ whiners ’ and ‘ the doom generation ’) than not.

In his youth, he spent much time in Saint-Denis, where he built a friendship with the Abbot Suger that served him well in his early years as king.

It belonged to a red-haired person — a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older — whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble ; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.