Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to the exposition of facts, something of prophecy for the future. What is to be the result, for instance, of the merging of Harvard College and the Scientific School? Are the A.B. and S.B. to become one degree? Is education of a democracy to make the training of youth so "practical" an affair that Harvard College will cease to be a home of the humanities...
...money in importing old paintings, often imitations, while they ought rather to encourage their own artists and the splendid enthusiasm with which young Americans are inspired. In Germany too much stress is laid on the value of older men, but in America the optimistic belief prevails that to competent youth should go positions of trust and honor...
...years Dr. Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire...
...over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and vigorous man who can shoulder the continuous and heavy work which the office involves. When President Eliot was inaugurated in 1869 he was only 35 years old and the Corporation has shown its fearlessness of comparative youth recently in appointing a new dean for the Medical School who is 32. Many men in the West and South are looking for a man from outside of Massachusetts, and there is no question but that it would strengthen Harvard in many communities were the right man to be found...
...prose story "A Woman There Was," is a study of a coquette, thoughtless but not all bad, and a sturdy unsophisticated rustic youth. The phases of feeling and the development of character are well set forth; but how could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told...