Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Judge Cabot, the next speaker, emphasized the Major's recognition of the value of friendship and the value of music in inspiring sentiments as noble as that of friendship. "Mr. Higginson gave Solidiers Field. It symbolized the love of friends. It was in memory of the friends of his, youth, his comrades who died in the war when he and they staked their lives in the great cause. And then, years later, he gave this building (the Union), symbolizing the love of friendship...
...fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music...
...best things about Harvard College is that the strange youth, the non-conforming to all the passing college fashions of the day, has always had a place there. All the non-conformists do not grow into Theodore Roosevelts--far from it. But the steam-roller of undergraduate sentiment has never been able to make them all alike, and it is much to be hoped that it never will. No college has all the making of its sons. We hold it to be a special distinction of Harvard, however, that it gives the fullest possible scope to the development of their...
...organization of our youth in patriotic service is one of the most distinguished developments of the period of uprousal through which we have passed. The proclamation of President Wilson, recommending the observation of a "Boy Scout Week" early next month, throughout the land, undoubtedly gives expression to the popular sentiment of approval...
...President of the United States, this week is to be observed as Boy Scout Week throughout the nation. It is desired to obtain one million new associate members of the Boy Scouts of America. There is no greater investment than in providing the means for developing the youth of the nation, upon whom the whole future of America so obviously depends...