Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every man can be made into an aviator--youth, physique, clear and quick thinking, and the character that makes good officers are essential. Aviation is not a vocation for men who think slowly and who "hesitate when in doubt." but rather for those who think quickly and lay stress on "when on thin ice skate fast." The country must look to its university undergraduates for the personnel on which to draw for its aerial defence...
...must first be acquired by the young men in our colleges. Such a habit, which is all important for the progress of any nation, is at present nonexistent in America. Habits of any character are seldom formed in old or middle age, and national habits particularly develop during the youth of one generation to be inherited by all future generation. The undergraduates of Harvard and all other American colleges must lead the way in the forming of this new, and what the future will proclaim, most valuable of all American habits, that of taking an intelligent, active interest in America...
...European war, honoring them all alike as worthy sons, regardless of the side on which they fought; and to most graduates of the college this has seemed the fine and noble thing about the memorial. It was alma mater's loving and unquestioning tribute to the brave youth she had nurtured...
...conceivable that motives equally patriotic may have inspired the Harvard youth who have served in the German ranks; and if military fame were awarded solely on the basis of purity of ideals, there would be fewer monuments to greatness. But certainly Harvard's historic memorial to her sons who died in the Civil War was not erected on a foundation of partisan bitterness, and there is no reason why the college should show itself untrue to its traditions in its present tribute to student bravery...
Born in 1600, Claude Gellee, called is Lorraine from his native province of France, ventured to Rome in his youth struggled as a paint-boy in Tassi's studio, and won his first recognition from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who, in 1629, purchased two pictures from the young artist. When Pope Urban, who was shown them by the cardinal, expressed his exceptional pleasure, the landscapes of Claude became the fashion, and his fame steadily rose during the rest of his long life of 82 years. At his death he was a recognized classic, his reputation remaining steadily supreme in his field throughout...