Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Alike in study, in manufacture, in war, in efficiency itself, which wastes the life of the young, Germany has an extraordinary vitality; and it is not too much to say that, among these many efforts only in the universities is the place of this vitality taken by the vivacity and industry of women; in the universities and high schools the nation shows the clearest signs of the spur. Both schools lost the greater proportion of their students, but the number of women has increased. Of 66,000 young men at the high schools, 12,000 were students during the past...
...William W. Ellsworth, who has recently retired from the presidency of the Century Company, has said that the tendency of college education is to make the young man of literary inclinations a critic rather than a creative artist. "I do not think," writes Mr. Ellsworth in an article for the New York Times, "that any one conversant with the situation can say that we have as many writers of real significance today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher...
...decades, and declares that the educational machinery of our colleges is at fault. It must be remembered that the population of the country has advanced with gigantic strides, and each decade has found American colleges struggling to expand their scolastic facilities in order to care for the mass of young men eager to learn. Simultaneous with the remarkable growth of the number of applicants for a college education, is the appearance of new aims and ideals in the minds of these young men. Never before have commercial enterprises, engineering projects, and financial adventures offered such rich prizes to the educated...
...been quite a bit of missionary educational work done by Tech, which has its special circular in Spanish and its representatives on the popular South American tours. Chile, which has its own excellent systems of education caring for the student from the kindergarten to the degree, sends eight young men, a number of them from the national naval academy, with three from Colombia and two from Equador. Fourteen is the tally from South America and twenty others come from the Central American countries. Mexico leading with eight, Cuba having seven and Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica dividing the remainder...
...cent, of cases occur in persons over ten years of age, and that the danger to grown persons is very slight. Of course proper attention should be given to good habits of eating, sleeping and exercise, but these general precautions are considered sufficient to protect the hundreds of young men who come together in class rooms and dormitories from all over the country. If the public would take as sensible a view of the situation and would follow ordinary precautions in hygiene, there may be no appreciable danger, either in opening the schools or in allowing public gatherings. With...