Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martin, in his leading editorial, strikes the note of humility and detachment characteristic of his group. The Lampoon must be sacred to youth, he asserts. Only when the fathers are in need of instruction should they visit their sons on Mt. Auburn St. Following the lead of their spokesman, then, the graduates have been more than willing to let youth be served...
...least appreciated of the poor relations. But with the money Jane, the heir, also inherits the mother's wish that she reform Ben, the youngest son, and marry him so that he may have some of the capital. Ben, it seems, burned a barn in his early youth and has not been seen until the hour of mother's death. These are the basic entanglements. Then Jane plays the Samaritan. She keeps Ben out of jail, pays Henry's rent, and buys Orrin a pair of skates. In return for this she is tolerated. Several rifts in the course...
...wasted time. But some of it, whether spent at the club or with some young lady, he would hesitate to call wasted, even from his new character as a "grind". To him it appears a definite part of a young man's development, a fact which the hallucination of youth allows him to appraise...
...worst conditions, possibly without adequate preliminary training. To them the Ice side of the rotunda must appear to be a special contribution of Providence for their safety while they are still serving their apprenticeships. Upper classmen, although now fully qualified as "artful dodgers" should remember the days of their youth, when they too relied on the uncompromising protection of the rotunda--not forgetting sundry entertaining exhibitions occasionally staged on top of this same stately edifice. Altogether, no end of "Woodman spare that tree" sentiment ought to be awakened...
Meanwhile the Brazilians have learned that all our wives are foolish, all our youth is flaming, and all our sunsets are obscured by an enamoured couple locked in a long and lingering embrace. In America, the chief effect of this sort of stuff is a certain softening of the brain. If Brazil can eat it up, as after all, America, eats it up too and get away with it, without the accompanying cerebral debility, Americans will be the first to rejoice and incidentally, to profit...