Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second speaker of the evening was President Lowell. "You who are interested in the Boy Scouts," he said, "have founded the movement on the same theory on which the United States is based, the inherent goodness of human nature. There are many possibilities in every youth which are not always evident except in some natural crisis. No one who has to do with young boys can fail to realize this. The difficulty which one encounters is in trying to bring out these qualities when there is no natural crisis at hand. That is what you are trying...
...with great interest and have been thrilled by his courage and skill; and now that he has given his life to the cause of liberating France from oppression, we cannot feel that his name should not be commemorated in some enduring manner to serve as an example to the youth of the future...
...were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics was academic. Today it is practical. Four years ago the ballot was a symbol. Today it is a weapon for good or ill. Fortunately for the destiny of the nation, youth is idealistic. Its eyes are on the future. It is living in today and tomorrow, not yesterday. Its vision is clear and its heart sound. It is safe to predict that in the momentous election in which it will participate this year for the first time it will be guided...
...most interesting prose in the issue is the article by Professor Lanman on the late Josiah Royce. Few of the men even in his courses know about his youth and its impetuous power. The article tells of his days at Baltimore University in 1876. It tells of his beliefs and his spirit throughout life. It is most valuable...
...every one forgotten--it would not be strange if we had--that Cecil Rhodes, of South Africa, founded these scholarships to bring together at Oxford representative youth from the British Colonies and the United States? By an after-thought he decided that it might be well to base his hopes for the peace of the world on a little larger representation, so he included five German scholars to be chosen by the Emperor...