Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book on taxidermy, advertised in the Youth's Companion, was what started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
This will mark Howard's first appearance in competition for two years, the West Roxbury youth having been forced out of athletics at Harvard for all of last year because of an eye injury sustained during the baseball season when he was hit by a batted ball. Although his vision is still somewhat defective. Howard has not found it much of a handicap to winning a regular position, and it is not likely he will relinquish it during the present season...
...upon proof of the need. Our affections for this our temporary place of residence, will probably be no less than that or our predecessors, but it is going to be of a some what different nature. We shall remember our college not in the golden glow of careless youth, but with the clear memory that there the pathway of our life, for the first time, lay clear before...
...have not quite removed the problem of the isolation of the country boy and girl. A discussion of this eternal problem is to be found in the New Republic, and the result is more superficial than the subject merits. The writer has evidently based his judgements on the rural youth of yesterday, not that of today, or even more to the point, of tomorrow. His analysis amounts to nothing more than a compromise. "They seem healthier than the urban youths--probably because they have not learned how to affect boredom--but they also seem less vital and less interesting." Which...
...country youth is less interesting--and that in itself is doubtful--it is certainly not less vital. No class in America today is receiving as great benefits from the present spread of higher education. Hitherto farmers have had immense resources but they were handicapped by a complete ignorance of how to use them. And pratical agricultural training as it is being taught in numerous institutions does give the future farmer a better idea of his problems, if it does nothing else. Economically neither the urban nor rural class can exist without the other; intrinsically, neither is the more important...