Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whenever the college man is attacked on intellectual grounds his policy should undoubtedly be to admit everything. In comparison with the professors and the cultivated magazine writers who pen the indictments he can only feel his youth and lack of wisdom. Any proposal, therefore, for the elimination of "snaps", for the increasing of work required within reasonable limits merits his approval. But proposals for a return to greater prescription encounter difficulties. What studies are "cultural"? All critics admit that the word culture is vague. Shall Greek or European history be prescribed? The philosopher doubtless believes that philosophy is at least...
...becomes more conscious of the contrast of its won philosophy with his sporting philosophy, and tackles his boyish Americanisms less mercifully, or until makes college life less like that of an undergraduate country club, and more of an intellectual workshop where men and women in the fire of their youth, with conflicts and idealisms, questions and ambitions and desire for expression, come to serve an apprenticeship under the masters of the time...
...less perfunctory marker of papers. The professor is interested in the assistant and his other graduate students; and the assistant is interested in the professor. Meanwhile the undergraduate is forgotten. The University is regarded as a "society of scholars," not as an institution for the education of American youth...
...suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when we might be spending it in learning and spreading lessons of peace. Then, when the time comes for us to talk to the world of plans for perpetual peace, if we fail to accomplish our high aims, at least...
...Court Favor" was adapted by Mrs. David Kimball from Oscar Wilde's story, "The Infanta's Birthday." It centres about the coming of a mountain youth to the court of Spain...