Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...views abounded in a wealth of color, showing not only a large number of scenes from the canon itself but also many portions of the neighboring country. Among the other subjects shown were the ancient cliff dwellings, petrified forests, and settlements of the Navajo and Moqui Inbians who live not far from the canon...
...newspapers carefully. But the most vital of these questions, which he would find treated piecemeal in the newspapers are discussed in their entirety in a class debating club. This good with two others--ease in expressing one's thoughts in public and a correct habit of thought in examining live questions--are easily within the reach of even those who see in themselves no promise as great debaters or who have no such ambition...
...finds also the social tendency. He has the responsibility of developing his own character, and he has also social duties to his class and literary interests of the College. He sees some men in College who try to be popular and influential, some who lead quiet and retired lives; he knows that men of both kinds succeed and fail in after life. But whether in solitude or society, there is one good rule for the man of intellectual life to follow: "Never think of yourself." After entering college a man no longer belongs to himself, he is joined to this...
...former, told in a happy-go-lucky style with frequent touches of humor, holds the interest of the reader till the end. The latter, a serio-comic essay with a good deal of truth mixed in, not only has the value of much wit, but takes hold of a live college topic...
...regard to the second subject, the expediency of dividing "live" from "dead" books, no radically different method from the present one is recommended. Careful consideration is given of the relation that the Library should have to other libraries of Boston and vicinity...