Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Compulsion intelligently applied in a good cause is a blessing. For example, a youth of 19, with a normal desire to perform his duties as a citizen, finds the incentive toward service in the regular military establishment or in the militia somewhat weaker than the incentive to take his ease, avoiding all discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service...
...calmest judgment, and give false value to the characters of some men who seem greater than they are. Yet such superficial judgment is far less common here than it is under a more sophisticated mode of life. It is the reaction from the barbaric simplicity of the judgments of youth which is apt to cause men to consider that the standards of judgment here are aristocratic. There is a clean and healthy tendency to regard men for their accomplishments, and the opportunity for accomplishment is open to every man. Can one find in any other group of men outside...
...years that the loss of his valuable supervision and keen interest will be regretted by the entire University. No more splendid administrative record rests to the credit of any man. Added to this he has carried on a country-wide campaign for national preparedness that has aroused the youth of this country to their patriotic responsibilities and the older generation to the shocking need of legislation for large military appropriations...
...Craig is eternally young in the part of the Professor's wife. She has all the skill of long experience and much of the bloom of youth. Frederick Eric does well as the theorist, reminding Cambridge auditors of many friends of the lecture platform. In the part of Dr. May, Harvey Hawley is consistently clever and nimble...
...Perhaps the most striking fact," says Mr. Weber, "in all these years of composition has been the docility of the students. Is the arrogance of youth' a meaningless phrase? I can count on my fingers the students who have rebelled against my criticisms. . . . . I wonder whether the same conditions prevail at Harvard or at Bryn Mawr? I know they do not in athletics...