Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorials are all good. The leading contributions, long, carefully arranged and artistically written stories, are a happy exchange for the usual expanded daily themes. "Counterfeiting," by A. H. Gilbert '01, is an ingenuous and amusing little sketch of a somewhat conventional sort. The Hon. Jack Castleton, a shy, weak youth of the "gilded set" and the educated valet are familiar figures; but the writer puts them through their parts with skill and humor. A throughly studied final situation gives the sketch the needed balance...
...Overseers and Faculty at Harvard should take a step back of the Freshman class. The physical degeneracy of American educated youth is not to be traced to life at the University, but life in the preparatory school. The Harvard Faculty should begin their laudable work of physical reformation by adding a new requisite of admission, in the shape of a prescribed number of hours given to athletics in the three years preceding an undergraduate's matriculation. Exercise is compulsory in all the great public schools of England, and Oxford and Cambridge, as well as Woolwich and Sandhurst, are recruited...
When the country is in no danger it is necessary for the youth to consider not only his duty to his family, but to himself as an element of influence in the commonwealth. The needs of defense are not so much at the ports or on the sea as in the very hearts of our political institutions...
...seek sleep and cleanliness as far as posible, and if not able to keep dry should at least keep up bodily warmth. The college man's superior usefulness in the field should come from his faithful devotion to the cause, from his readiness of perception, and from his undaunted youth...
...speaker is an actor and a good stage appearance is always a great help to him. Though great success has been attained by men destitute of all the natural gifts, it has only come as the result of constant cultivation of their physical and intellectual development from their early youth. The young speaker should exercise, to expand his lungs and develop his physique. But above all he must acquire knowledge. To develop himself intellectually he must read widely, largely and fearlessly in every department of human inquiry...