Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...following review of the current issue of the Lampoon was written by Harford Powel, Jr. '09, former president of the Lampoon, and now editor of the Youth's Companion...
...yard shuttle relay in a nasty rain, without knocking over a single hurdle. The U. S. boys slipped, floundered, smote down barriers, were almost out of sight when Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon - com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw...
...more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind. In the nineteenth century it was called mal de siecle, mal de Rene, Werther-sickness--any number of names. Today it bears the label of "student suicide", probably because the public...
...amateur theatrical leadership it had so bravely assumed, and nothing would buck up my pride more than to see the Harvard Dramatic Club so supported by undergraduate enthusiasm that it could carry on the good work whatever the attitude of the authorities. The theatre of tomorrow belongs to the youth of today. The Harvard Dramatic Club is youth, I hope confident, I hope daring, I hope full of the will to experiment...