Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...physical changes I have published various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows that the increase in weight from the nineteenth to the twenty-third year is only eight pounds. The average weight of a boy at nineteen is 139.4 pounds...
...fact of its comparative antiquity and a certain dignity and aristocracy that naturally comes there from, and from Harvard's recognized primacy among educational institutions has come the rather general belief that Harvard is exclusive expensive attainable only to rich men and indulgent of vices common to the gilded youth. In truth, however Harvard with its non-sectarianism. Its enormous cosmopolitan attendance its prohibition of secret societies with their caste and clannishness, its diversified course of study in the college proper and the many special schools that make-up the University is the most democratic of educational institutions...
...youth who gave the name of Robert McGinnis, is circulating through Cambridge, taking subscriptions for periodicals in order (as he asserts), to help him in a "Yale scholarship contest." He gave as a reference "Captain Sullivan of the second precinct," but there is no Captain Sullivan in the second precinct or any other precinct of Cambridge. He also asserted that he came from the Georgetown Preparatory School, but the authorities of that school report that they have never had any such student. One "R.M. Green," whose personal appearance strikingly resembles that of Bob McGinnis, has recently been operating in Northampton...
...little relief from the sadness of a sorrowful tale, but the sentiment is strong hearted and healthy, the language is dignified, the acting is simple, the whole has impressiveness and charm. It is a good play to see. Lovers of the poem will still find the poem, and youth who are learning the poem will find it vivified...
...spoke of the admiration that he felt for the American youth,--his physical prowess, his mentality, and his splendid athletic games. "And I consider it a great honor," he said, "to be received among you, the founders of whose University have so inseparably joined it with the older institutions of Europe. I only wish that relations between Paris and Cambridge might be more extensive, not only that you should have intercommunications with the Sorbonne, but that we might exchange representatives...