Word: boyish
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...Iselin's Valere was a joy; the boyish lover, ready to marry anyone to prove that he will not be flouted, and yet man enough to risk all that he has to save Organ...
...drinking rather than drunkenness became the social offense. The result was a rapid swing back from the attitude that a man might drink, but owed respect for his follows in the matter of conduct to the boyish point of view that intoxication was a joke, not on one's self, but on the law. The sense of personal responsibility was miraculously shifted from the individual to the law, and the result has been occasional debauches in the universities...
...American institutions of learning is for the student to set himself too far apart from the community; to make himself an aristocrat, not of letters but in a narrow view of life, limited to chapter politics and strivings for student leadership, not on lines of mental development, but of boyish rivalries elevated to undue importance, forgetful of the world he must face when the four years' course is ended. The usual student in the American college is lamentably minus as a coming citizen. He does not read the newspapers. His current knowledge is of the slightest, his interest...
Appearance. He is slightly under six feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
...learn without warning that our predecessors played boyish pranks, dodged an education, and generally mistreated the glorious manhood of sideburns. Rumours of such things had previously reached our ears, but somehow we had failed to connect them officially with these portrait ancestors. And now we do not know whether to thank the Dean for his compliment, or to deplore his shattering of our beliefs. Incidentally, to return a Roland for an Oliver, the wisdom of the whole disclosure might be questioned; for, having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might...