Word: callowness
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...lest some goggle-eyed callow youth still think that the reading of this travesty of a tragedy is all play and no work let him take into consideration the acute banality of the story. THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE epitomizes the novel as follows...
WILD MARRIAGE-B. H. Lehrm Harper ($2.00). Mr. Lehman, a ture Harvard graduate, sketches easily. He exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion...
...past administration of the Union. Much has already been done to bring it into the suggested position. At every turn however, it has been met by the inertia of the undergraduate body, by a lack of interest which might well warrant one in saying the average undergraduate is a callow person after all. Real interest on the part of the undergraduate body, which would result in a full and interested membership, taking some initiative from time to time, would undoubtedly do much to extend the influence and usefulness of the Union...
...entered in the first; that with the Annapolis first and junior crews and the Undine Barge Club eight. Pennsylvania, M. I. T., the Annapolis Alumni crew, and the New York Athletic Club combination are entered in the second heat. There is still a chance of one more entry. Coach Callow, whose Washington crew has been making such excellent time on the Hudson over the mile distance, is contemplating sending his crew to Philadelphia for the Olympic trials...
...distinguished style and a personal bearing that made him the last gentleman of the old grand manner. Today Ms voice has diminished in quality, but he still sings with all of his great mastery of style and interpretation. Our own Scotti of the Metropolitan Opera House is no callow youth, neither is Didur nor De Lucca nor Rothier. But these fellows are baritones and bassos, who are notable for being devils hard to kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso...