Word: youthful
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...life of the city, but an exotic growth of which the very existence is precarious. Mr. Damon's article makes a searching examination into the various requirements which have to be adjusted in this most composite of arts, and his suggestions certainly have the spontaneous enthusiasm of youth. One point, however, is somewhat wide of the mark. The statement that "cities of any size abroad are able to support a company throughout the winter, whereas Boston cannot do this for eighteen weeks" merely records the chief practical difference between foreign management and our own. Every one of the leading opera...
...CRIMSON, March 7, Doctor Maynadier has this sentence, pregnant with uncommonly good sense: "Any officer of the College, even 'the young assistant,' must have a point of view so different from that of the undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth...
...read by undergraduates. Are not undergraduates the best people to review them? Any officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious story of "Youth," wish the enthusiasms of that rosy age back again; but we are aware that in artistic performance, extreme youth is seldom capable of the highest achievement. For such weaknesses as appear in the present Advocate...
...short articles on present day school and college athletics in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The editor in introducing his contributors says: "It is not too much to say that, if the current standard of athletic honor were applied to other undergraduate interests, the training of American youth would border on demoralization." The headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy follows with a severe indictment of the methods of some of the school coaches and of the colleges where the example of these methods is set Finally comes Professor Stewart of Idaho who asserts that participation in college athletics teaches...
...study of the figures not only demonstrates that there has been increase in the growth power of Yale students, but also corroborates the assertion that the youth of the present day are better developed physically than those of past generations. At the close of the war, Dr. Gould had occasion to examine 291 normal and healthy students from the Senior and Junior classes at Yale and Harvard. From these examinations he compiled the following statistics, with which we compare the measurements of the present class: 1910. 1864. Senior Class. Dr. Gould's Statistics. Age 22.2 21.7 Height...