Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Hoover has a rare gift for kindling new fires of moral endeavor within young men, for sending them forth on missions of nobility. An influence at New Haven where he is in close contact not only with the student body but also with returning-and "reuning"-alumni, Dean Hutchins may find himself a Hoover missionary spreading the gospel of abstinence among college men. The Yale Law School has been conducting a survey of court administration. Dean Hutchins, with Prof. Charles E. Clark, told the President of this work. If asked, he could have given President Hoover an illuminating account...
...Personal Liberty Committee" was formed in Manhattan last week by young lawyers opposing prohibition who promised to defend without charge "worthy cases who may be subject to the heavy penalties provided under that [Five & Ten] law." Seven onetime assistant U. S. District Attorneys signed up. Dry leaders in Washington were enraged at this "disrespect...
Modigliani, the gifted young Italian who died at the beginning of a promising career is represented by the "Portrait of a Young Woman." This picture embodies much of the elusive charm of a Quattrocento portrait. It is interesting to compare this work, executed in sombre colors, with the rather harsh Modigliani "Woman and Child" in the Fogg Museum where the artist is working in a very different vein...
...should also place more emphasis on teaching in our universities. If we would cut out a little of the original research and substitute some fine teaching in its place we would be much better off. Good teaching, however, will not get a young instructor ahead, hence there is no impetus to foster better teaching. I was talking to a young professor just starting out and he told me that the only way to get ahead was to publish volumes of books or to receive offers from other universities...
...apparently led some of the Boston newspapers to say that a large proportion of the Harvard Faculty, the undergraduates, and the alumni were hostile to the "house plan." Now, the Bulletin is in a position where it can form a reasonably sound judgment about the opinions of Harvard men, young and old. We are certain that the opposition to the new project, from any source, is inconsiderable, and that such as exists is based on unfamiliarity with the enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that not all agree...