Word: young
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Helm, W. H. Kenyon vs. C. T. Emmet, Jr., G. W. Widde vs. L. R. Frost, B. H. Fager vs. M. Lichanco, R. S. Ward vs. W. C. Louchheim, R. C. Rogers vs. H. W. Harris, H. Taggard vs. D. Case, N. Thayer vs. J. D. Chase, E. S. Young vs. W. Rand, A. Knox vs. M. A. Rothschild, C. L. Olmstead vs. J. B. Fenno, J. T. Tower vs. W. C. Bent, R. S. Childe vs. E. H. Frost...
...among college sports. Football has obtained its position as the college sport par excellence largely because of its freedom from the taint of commercialism. By nature a rough, and at times a brutal game, football is never theless dominated by the amateur spirit, and the thousands of boys and young men who play it in our schools and colleges do it for love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing up of professional football teams will inevitably result in boys playing football at college in order that later they may receive flattering offers...
Lynching is a denial of the right secured by law to every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
...facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm a good many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember friendships that originated and received...
What at college, will take the place of alcoholic liquors as a promoter of contacts, a revealer of sympathetic tastes, a humanizer of stiff and frigid young minds? Why has drink played the important part that it has in college fiction, unless it is that the writers of college fiction have recognized its influence in shaping human relations at college...