Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Virgil" (University Press), translated by the late Theodore Chickering Williams '76, with an introduction by George Herbert Palmer '64. A metrical translation of the country poetry of Virgil by the author of a notable translation of Virgil's Aeneid. These pastorals, written for the most part in Virgil's youth, exercised a great influence on the poets of later times...
...their allegation of ignorance every fair-minded man must accept; first, because, on general principles, they should have the benefit of the doubt; next, because they are men whose word amount those who know them is taken without question. Nor should their ignorance surprise anybody who has closely observed youth. A printed rule forbade their receiving board; probably not one of them had ever read the book of rules. If students read--and remembered--all the printed matter made accessible to them by the college office, there would be an immediate cut in the price of college administration. Year...
...Boyden's review of Hugh Walpole and Compton Mackenzie is admirable, not because it is the last word on these writers, but because it is a young man's unpretentious appreciation of the treatment of youth by two other young men. It avoids with uncommon tact that straining for an appearance of maturity and omniscience which is the vice of undergraduate criticism
...service at the front. The drivers of these cars are volunteers, for the most part graduates of American universities, and I can say without exaggeration that, with scarcely an exception, they are what we should all be glad to have regarded as typical American gentlemen, the flower of American youth...
...Carlyle in a sympathetic spirit, and presents him to readers in a way to attract and induce the perusal of Carlyle's own work. This is its purpose, as the explanatory title, "How to Know Him," indicates. Professor Perry passes from a penetrating and concise account of Carlyle's youth and intellectual growth to a discussion of his literary theory and its application in his various works. Quotation predominates for Carlyle is allowed to "explain himself and his views, as adequately as the inexorable count of pages will permit...