Word: callowness
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...right after we get some sense knocked into him." This is the sentiment, expressed in one form or another . . . in which the hard headed business man holds the young college graduate. . . . He avers it as his experience that the callow youth just out of college will attempt to advise about the running of the business the first week of his employment. That is why the young graduate gets, at the outset, the hardest and dirtiest and least important jobs about the establishment. It is this attitude, too, that impels many business houses in seeking college men to prescribe "none...
...callow youth, privileged to write for one of the evening papers from Camp Grant, declares that "the salute must go," that "the American people are not given to permitting themselves to be lowered socially by any mark of deference...
...loaded with special features were placed along the sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings by the extreme promptness and order in which they formed in line...
...wishes for the success of his present enterprise, perhaps there is a grain of selfish interest. Mr. Bowen is starting out to do missionary work for the college; he is to preach the Harvard "word" throughout the land; and, we expect, in the near future, troops of callow youth to come thronging to Harvard as the results of his efforts. But, whether this result comes or not, our wishes for his success are both sincere and hearty...
...maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting to see Miss Sangbleu of Old Cambridge come up, perennially blooming, year after year, to deposit one cent for each of the callow youth who have fallen victims to her charms! And what a fund would Miss Sangblen then create, before, in the course of time, her attractions would finally cease to do execution...