Young Men's Christian Association
an organization of young men for social and religious purposes. Its privileges are open to all young men of good morals. Those who fill its offices must be members of good standing of Protestant evangelical churches. The association was founded at London June 6, 1844, by George Williams, then a dry goods clerk, now a wealthy merchant. The original members were employes in business houses. Provision was made for Bible study, a library and reading room, a restaurant, evening classes, and a gymnasium. The movement proved so well suited to the needs of young men without homes of their own that it soon spread throughout the cities of all parts of the English-speaking world. The first American association was organized at Montreal in 1851. Societies were organized in Boston and New York later in the same year. In 1854 the American associations held a general convention at Buffalo. Speaking for the American associations alone, there was, in 1910, a membership of nearly half a million, holding property valued at $40,000,000. The organization owns about 500 buildings and employs 2,500 men. See Epworth League
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Young Pretender
THE, Charles Edward Stuart, of Scotland, who was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland, at Culloden, April 16, 1746. The Scotch lost 2,500 men killed on the field, or in the slaughter which occurred in the cruel pursuit, while the loss of the English did not far exceed 200. Prince Charles, who wandered among the wilds of Scotland for six months, while $150,000 were offered for taking him, at length escaped in Rome, from Uist to Morlaix, and died March 3, 1788.
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Young, Edward
Edward (1681-1765), an English writer. He wrote during the period made notable by such men as De Foe, Dryden, Addison, Pope, and Swift. His reputation rests chiefly on his Night Thoughts. It is a sombre, meditative poem. It was much in favor with the great-grand-parents of the present generation, but now it is little read. A number of well coined expressions, however, are likely to remain in permanent circulation: Death loves a shining mark. Procrastination is the thief of time. Tired Nature's sweet restorer--balmy sleep. How blessings brighten, as they take their flight. Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps. 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
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Young, Ella Flagg
Ella Flagg (1845-), an American educator. Ella Flagg was born at Buffalo, New York , and was educated in the public schools of Chicago. She was graduated from the city high schools and the city training school for teachers. Miss Flagg began teaching in 1862. In 1868 she married William Young but did not cease her professional work. In 1887 Mrs. Young was made superintendent of one of the districts of Chicago. President Harper offered her a position in Chicago University, but Mrs. Young insisted on waiting until she had a suitable degree. In 1900 she won the degree of Ph. D. with honors in the University of Chicago and accepted the coveted professorship. In 1905 Mrs. Young was elected principal of the Chicago Normal School . In 1909 she was elected superintendent of the public schools of Chicago at a salary of $10,000 a year, the most responsible position and the highest salary ever awarded an American woman. At the 1910 session of the National Educational Association held in Boston Mrs. Young was elected president for the ensuing year.
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Younghusband
SIR GEORGE JOHN, a British military officer; born in 1859. He was educated at Clifton lege and at Sandhurst, and entered the army in 1878, reaching eventually the rank of m eneral. al. He He ser served in the major-general. Afghan War (1878-1880); the Soudan (1885); the Burmah War' (1886-1887); the Spanish-American War (1898); the South African War (1899-1902); and the World War (1914-1917). He was awarded many medals and other decorations and frequently mentioned in despatches. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1917 became Keeper of the Jewel House in the Tower of London. He wrote "Eighteen Hundred Miles on a Burmese Tat"; "Polo in India"; "Frays and Forays"; "The Queen's Commission"; "Relief of Chitral"; "The Philippines and Round campaign; was promoted Major-General About"; "Indian Frontier Warfare"; "Tournament Polo"; "The Story of the Guides"; "A Soldier's Memories" (1917).
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Ypsilanti (City in Washtenaw co Mich)
a city in Washtenaw co., Mich.; on the Huron river, and on the Michigan Central, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads; 30 miles W. of Detroit. Here are the Michigan State Normal School, St. John's Academy, business college, Ladies' Public Library, electric lights, waterworks, National and savings banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. The city has dress manufactories of condiments, stays, paper, woolen goods, etc., Pop. (1910) 6,230; (1920) 7,413.
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Yriarte
CHARLES EMILE (iri-ärt') a French journalist, of Spanish descent; born in Paris, France, in 1832. Among his works are: "Spanish Society" (1864); "Parisian Portraits" (1865); "The Life of a Venetian Patrician in the Sixteenth Century" (1874); "Venice: Its History, Art, Industry, the City and Its Life" (1879); "Italian Sculpture in the Fifteenth Century" (1885); "Francesca da Rimini" (1882); "Cesar Borgia" (1888). He died in 1898.
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Ysaye
EUGÈNE, a Belgian violinist; born in Liège, Belgium, July 16, 1858; studied at the Liège Conservatory; traveled extensively till his appointment as first violinist in the Brussels Conservatory; came to the United States in 1894; and appeared in Boston and New York with great success.
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Yssel
or IJSSEL, the name of several rivers in the Netherlands. The NIEUW YSSEL, one of the principal arms of the Rhine, leaves that river below Arnheim, Ar flows N. E. for 16 miles to Doesburg, where it receives the OUDE YSSEL from Westphalia, then N. E., N., and N. W., through Gelderland and Overyssel, past Zutphen and Deventer, receiving the Borkel and Schip-Beek, emptying at Kampen by many arms into the Zuyder Zee, and forming a constantly widening delta. It is one of the five main arms of the Rhine, is 320 feet broad at Zutphen, 764 at Kampen, and 90 miles in length. The NEDER YSSEL, an arm of the Leck, which leaves that stream at Vianen, flows W. through Utrecht at Oudewater, enters Southern Holland and flows S. W. past Gouda to join the Maas, forming at its mouth the island of Ysselmonde.
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