Word: younger
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Since the professional baseball season terminated, a larger proportion of those who watch football practice are of the type known in baseball lore as "fans." Another unnecessary faction is the younger set of Cambridge and Boston uncertainties popularly known as "muckers." This decidedly extra-University element has certainly developed undesirable proportions. Theoretically there is no objection to orderly visitors who desire to watch our practice, but the unpleasant evidences of the tobacco chewing habit left in the Stadium by the older enthusiasts, and the utter disregard of the younger element for the rights of others, make their presence a nuisance...
...will be omitted; but Professor Baker will in all probability return to this country next spring and resume his course in the fall. The lectures which he will give at the University of Paris will undoubtedly be published later in book form Professor Baker is one of the younger members of the College Faculty. He has been connected with the department of English ever since he graduated in 1887. In 1895 he was made an Assistant Professor and in 1905 Professor of English. He has published a number of books, among which are: "Specimens of Argumentation," "Lyly's Endymion...
...record for clean Christian, living, he desired to be in the thick of the fight, and four years after graduation, in a district given over to crime and brutality, he had founded clubs that did away entirely with street ruffianism, his personality alone being sufficient to hold the younger men together
...criticise intelligently the themes at least of Freshmen, if not of upper-classmen. Such men are not "bound to be" narrow. If they are of the right sort, they bring to the work of the small section new ideas and a different point of view. The failure of those younger instructors who have proved unsuccessful (and the number is gratifyingly small) has usually been due to lack of the personal qualities necessary for successful teaching rather than to lack of knowledge, and such defects are rarely eradicated by two years o graduate study or of teaching at another college...
...Recent Graduates as Men of Lectures" Mr. Groton discusses appreciatively the younger generation of Harvard writers, and furnishes a convincing refutation of the thesis that the teaching of English composition in Harvard College has not served to develop men of letters. The men enumerated there, as well as many of a few years earlier,--Hammond Lamont, Charles M. Thompson, Mark Howe, William Morton Fullerton, to name but a few,--men who are succeeding, were taught in Harvard College, and here, as editors of our College papers, first really tried their hand...