Word: young
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...makes are good points, but they do not always bear on the objections they are meant to answer. Team-play does indeed cultivate honesty and unselfishness, but it is quite possible without the commercializing of athletics, which it is here used to defend. In "The Poet who Dies Young," Van Wyck Brooks makes a plea against materialism. Compared with Mr. Brook's writing of last year, this retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural...
...Department of State is anxious to obtain the services of young men of high character and ability, and looks to your College, among other educational institutions, for encouragement and assistance in this respect...
...simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction of the "Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent in the great forest; but the author fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure of the young man. "The Inevitable...
There is an appreciative notice of Barrett Wendell's latest work, "The France of Today," and a bit of severe but just criticism of a volume of poems by the young German-American poet, George Sylvester Viereck. The latter notice is a model of a book review. On barely a page we are given in telling sentences a characterization of the man and his poetry, without the omission of anything really essential
...Bicknell Young, C.S.B., a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, will lecture on "Christian Science" tonight in Peabody Hall,--Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Christian Science Society of Harvard, and all members of the University are invited to attend. Mr. Young will cover the salient points of Christian Science teachings, and will give a brief history of the work done by Mrs. Eddy...