Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time in Cambridge there lived Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilman, who desired for their daughter a college education equal to the best Harvard could offer. Having Miss Leach in mind, they took the problem of the education of their daughter and other young women to Professor and Mrs. Greenough in November...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...
...Young as he is, Mr. Steffan has hardly created a youthful banking precedent. National City's Board Chairman Charles Mitchell was head of National City Co. at 39 and of National City Bank at 44. National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler was 43 when (TIME, April 8) he took office. And Robert Livingston Clarkson, now absent because of illness, became president of Chase National last year at the same age that Mr. Steffan is today...
Said he: "When a man grows old as I have, he then feels like resorting to profanity, as he ought not to do, at the misconception of life and the use of the universities by feather-headed young men that don't look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...
Today she is mourned throughout the musical world. Most distracted are her pupils, young girls to whom she gave the last years of her life. They adored her, studied day and night, waiting for her to tell them they were ready for their debuts, remembering what she had done once many years before for a favorite pupil, Geraldine Farrar...