Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learning about naval life, and while the practical quality of this suggestion is not sufficiently marked to bring general commendation still it shows that the head of Harvard is oriented in the right direction. President Hadley, of Yale, has testified to the value of military training to the youth of Germany...
...information suggested, it would render the University a valuable service. Such a record helps to show what sort of men are attending the University, and what are the opportunities offered for self-advancement. Certainly any such encouraging report as has just come from Columbia should stimulate any ambitious youth who hesitates at a financial risk in going through college. Furthermore, the fact that such a large number of students are taking advantage of the opportunities offered shows how well the educational institutions are meeting the needs of the community...
...turns to the verse: here surely will be comfort; he can understand. Mist, Water-Lilies, Dusk, Evening in the Town, To Snowflakes Dancing Before My Window, In Memoriam, Their First Ride Together; Wordsworth, Herrick, Tennyson, Browning! The mantle of the great upon the shoulders of another generation of poetic youth! Poetry is not dead, whatever may have been one's feelings after reading Number 1 of the new Poetry Journal...
Last evening a member of the CRIMSON Board was walking by the queer looking tomb on Mt. Auburn street, when a youth, his features tumbling about in fear at his own boldness, stuck his head out of a stained-glass window and yelled feebly "E-yah!" Since the CRIMSON so disastrously put to rout Lampy's hobblers in last year's relay race and decisively defeated the funny fellows in baseball, the jokers have been humble as pie. Again, however, an evidence of life is seen, and the CRIMSON, believing such affrontery should be crushed in its infancy, desires...
...Emerson, itself a creditable piece of work, seem commonplace. But it hardly needs a foil to set off the astounding performance on Mr. Mackaye's "Uriel" which closes the number. One not infrequently finds in undergraduate publications evidence of a kind of verbal intoxication, the result of some youth's finding a fount of critical terms, and drinking too much before he knew how strong it was--with unseemly results. A. W. W.'s performance is by far the worst instance of this I have ever seen. Never before, I believe, have two pages of the Monthly contained so much...