Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an old French proverb something to the effect "if youth but knew, or age could do", which describes perhaps better than anything else the difficulties with any sort of institutional education, however perfect. By assembling and publishing such a bibliography as we have suggested, the University could, without much expense, provide a method for prolonging the applied study of the undergraduate and combining with it the later developed tastes and interests of the graduate...
...Age Limit for Men at Camps...
...applicats for the Red and Blue Camps must be between 19 and 27 years of age. The physical examination of the latter camp is somewhat more rigid than that of the former camp. The age limit of the White Camp is from 17 to 26 and the physical requirements are the same as for the Blue. Several exceptions, however, have been made to the above qualifications. Graduates of the 1921 Red Camp will not be barred from attendance at either of the other camps on account of age. Also those qualified applicants who desired to enter the 1921 Red Camp...
...reveal how keenly this analyzes the general ideal of education today. It has been left for Barrie, one of the "adults," to point out the dangers of such a conception, and to clear the way for change. Youth must not fear to think for itself; it must not trust Age; it must not believe all that it is told. Surely, men will declare, this is heresy. Barrie admits it; yet he does not stop even with passive distrust. What he advocates verges on revolution; it is concerted action on the part of the younger generation toward clearing away the blindfolds...
...effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent of Youth can progress be made; improvement does not come until Youth discovers and exposes the shortcomings of its Botters...