Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...favorite occupation of socialists and other "radicals" to rain abuse upon the college student for his conservatism. The Alumni Bulletin quotes, for example, the following from a recent book by John Macy '99: "Nothing could be more solidly conservative than American undergraduate youth. Many Russian students are rebels. But American universities can be trusted not to bring forth a revolutionary brat--their twilight sleep is perpetual." The Bulletin disagrees, and gives some instances to prove that there is no "lack either of professors and students with thoughts of their own, or of avenues for their self-expression...
...inquiry which investigated the scholastic methods of the academy last year recommended abolishment of the "dope" system, as it was called, and an order forbidding the use of any kind of special help followed. This help, it is claimed by many of the midshipmen, is needed by the average youth in order to get by the examinations. Others claim that the midshipmen felt, on account of the special need for officers in the navy, that they would be treated with more than the customary leniency. Moreover, the instructors have been forbidden to indicate in any way the nature...
...Salisbury '08 deplores the fact that the Ambulance service only attracts two kinds of men, the youth of established means who takes all the photographs he can, and returns at the end of three months, and the professional adventurer. As an antidote, he suggests extending the required term of service from three to six months. Granted that many ambulance-drivers are not without their imperfections, it is difficult to see how the proposed plan would provide an adequate remedy...
...under the direction of Mr. Walter Damrosch, and a chorus of 1200 voices is being selected and rehearsed by Mr. George Dunham. The cast is to be as follows: Elijah, Mr. Clarence Whitehill The Widow, Mme. Frieda Hempel Obadiah, Mr. Johannes Sembach The Angel, Mme. Schumann-Heink The Youth, Mme. Marie Sundelius The Queen, Miss Elvira Leveronl...
...radical views. Nothing makes a man think for himself more than to be shocked by the expression of some extreme opinion. If a college education can do no more, it can stir up a man's brain cells. The prevailing type of undergraduate, contrary to the supposed condition of youth, is too stand, too conservative, to be carried away by the expression of radical ideas. Should a fortunate student be accidentally bumped from his daily rut, panic would seize him, and the next day would find him travelling the well-beaten path of precedent again. Let us have...