Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football in its youth was a strange chill. The beginnings of the great Yale-Harvard gridiron rivalry bear little resemblance to what went on in the Stadium this afternoon...
...undergraduate of either of the two universities which find themselves in conflict today is prone to regard the Harvard-Yale football series as something coeval with the founding of the younger universities. As a matter of fact the series, with the background as the youth of today knows it, has been in existence some scant twenty-five years. Before then there were no great stadia and no series of home and home games...
...fulfills a more vital function--the function of presenting truthfully and in an interesting manner all the news of the University, and of expressing and guiding the opinion of the undergraduate body. There is a great difference between a newspaper and a gazette--possibly the difference between perpetual youth and premature age. And the CRIMSON, preferring the former, refuses to be a mere bulletin...
...youth Ibanez was a political orator. He waged battle for causes. He fought duels. Now he is publisher, journalist, novelist. His publishing firm has published in the form of cheap little paper books practically all of the world's masterpieces for the benefit of the Spanish people. Publishing on a grand scale-yes!-for Ibanez is just that -grandiose. Life for him, I fancy, is a brilliant gesture...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...