Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view, as we gather it from the announcements of Dr. Flexner and the ex-president of Harvard, Dr. Eliot. Such a purpose is comprehensible and its good points are apparent to anybody, whether or not he believes them sufficiently weighty to form the basis of a new education for youth after the present educational system shall have been swept away as faulty beyond amendment. The present system has not yet been over-thrown, but the attempt to construct a new one before destroying the existing scheme cannot be too highly praised...
...useful citizenship, there must be among them great leaders and great teachers. This is precisely the opportunity and need which Atlanta University is living up to. Teachers who assume the higher responsibilities are as entitled to training schools of the best type as are any white instructors of youth. --New York Evening Post
...such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit as Ponce de Leon and the explorers of old spent their lives seeking the fountain of youth, and so far with exactly similar results...
...together was embodied in the establishment of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford. A large sum of money was set aside to pay for the education of non-British students at the favored university of the testator. The students were to be chosen with care from among the most promising youth of foreign countries. Americans, Germans and many others took advantage of the opportunities thus offered and the Rhodes scholars became an interesting feature of Oxford life...
...work out the ideas or acts of the pioneers. But there are always people who might be pioneers if they exerted the will, or if circumstances opened the way. The adventurers who mean progress are coming more and more from the colleges. Hence humanity and progress are calling to youth, especially those aided by a college education, to become leaders. Michigan Daily...