Word: callow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...loaded with special features were placed along the sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings by the extreme promptness and order in which they formed in line...
...wishes for the success of his present enterprise, perhaps there is a grain of selfish interest. Mr. Bowen is starting out to do missionary work for the college; he is to preach the Harvard "word" throughout the land; and, we expect, in the near future, troops of callow youth to come thronging to Harvard as the results of his efforts. But, whether this result comes or not, our wishes for his success are both sincere and hearty...
...maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting to see Miss Sangbleu of Old Cambridge come up, perennially blooming, year after year, to deposit one cent for each of the callow youth who have fallen victims to her charms! And what a fund would Miss Sangblen then create, before, in the course of time, her attractions would finally cease to do execution...
...GUERNDALE: AN OLD STORY. By J. S. of Dale. C. Scribner's Sons, New York." "Guerndale" is not a book we would advise callow freshmen to send home to their loving "mamas" that they may get an idea of what we do at Harvard. About one-fourth of the book is a sketch of life at Harvard, and as the work of a Harvard man the entire book may be taken to represent in a certain sense the spirit of Harvard. However it only represents a certain "set" at Harvard. This is a fault common to most college books...
...World is pleased to state that Mr. Carl Schurz is to enlighten the callow youth of Harvard as to the relation between railroad lobbies and civil service reform. The description of the scholarly members of the Phi Beta Kappa (including so many of the professors and graduates of the university) as "callow youth," is as impudent as it is amusing...