Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, the University's aim is admittedly to gather a body of students which shall be truly national, having no essential bonds with the New England locale except those of a fine and honorable past. "Not the insular function of a provincial university whose duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard's"--so, wrote the CRIMSON last year, commenting on the University's pamphlet concerning...
...would be a wonderful, a marvelous, achievement if the student palaces so dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight...
...although one could not justly claim this true of Middlebury. A. Barton Hepburn had a very far sighted conception when he refused to give a marble Hepburn Hall. It was the first permanent Middlebury structure to be made of anything but marble. He had, perhaps, a subtle thought that youth should not all be entertained, beyond comfort and necessity. Hepburn is an ideal dormitory. If includes the essential comforts, is convenient in every way, but is not extravagant...
...type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...
...Last (1926) statements of the average circulations of certain U. S. weeklies were : Saturday Evening Post 2,674,343 Literary Digest 1,300,236 Collier's 1,241,925 Liberty 1,187,603 Youth's Companion 267,455 Judge 215,547 Life 139,753 Time 118,661 Outlook 64,857 Except for the Literary Digest, these figures were checked and certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Present weekly circulation of TIME, approximates 137,000 copies...