Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth is discussed by a competent and seasoned observer, the result is no revelation, but only a personal and far from sensational reaction to a far from sensational state of affairs...
...musical life of contemporary American youth was most vividly presented by the Gold Coast Orchestra, which is possessed of an extraordinary humor and virtuosity in Jazz effects C. E. Henderson '28 was the star of the evening by virtue of his adroit arrangements and subtle rhythmic piano play...
...Saturday Evening Post, in the current issue of which Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton College discusses what is on everybody's mind. In the matter of outlining new worlds, however, Dean Gauss cannot compare with that midwife of future ages, H. G. Wells; nor as a defender of contemporary youth with such an ally of progress as Judge Lindsey. There is only this to be said for the dean, that he is level headed and has no ax to grind...
...peculiar mental condition which in certain cases results from adolescence and scholarship. The results have been often interesting but rarely have they been successful--probably because such men as critics necessarily had to confine themselves to theories and generalities. Generalities can never adequately account for the mental repression of youth; each man is an individual and his particular psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry into the "emotional turmoil" of the student, is the most effective...
...whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley, England- the "Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended as a youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts it, yielded profit sufficient for a new hat. A prodigious worker, he was soon evolving the printed word...