Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...
dents who because of youth or of physical defects are kept out of active military life. We still encourage such contests, for the sake of exercise, discienergy; but we believe that in these times military training comes before athletics, and claims more than divided allegiance. We believe, also, that such public spectacles as our games with Yale and Princeton are unbecoming now, when the friends and comrades of the participants are at the front, or on their way to it, and in imminent danger of a soldier's death. Whether a modified and less formal kind of contest than...
Then comes another "war" story--with nothing in it about warfare; then a poem about "the 'pyrus' of the Nile" (we take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...
...this year. Since the outbreak of war he has been particularly active in the work among the young men at the training camps, and has spoken much for the American Red Cross and other war causes. Among his writings are "Saunterings in Europe," Beginning Life," "Friends and Foes of Youth" and "Some Moral and Religious Aspects...
This flower of youth--eager and brave...