Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...
...acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which he is capable." The youth who simply cannot pass except in a course largely technical or agricultural will find some technical or agricultural institution ready to accept his preparation. But the great body of general colleges cannot surrender their standards. They can find better ways of measuring compliance with them, and can apply them...
...universal military service, and I strongly support any advance in that direction. I believe that every boy should be given training during his nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally come between the last year of preparatory school...
...below apparently feels that professors and instructors are at present receiving a living wage and that any increase of pay beyond this living wage will bring teachers such an excess of comforts and personal pleasures that their attention will be detracted from their all-important duty of educating the youth of the country. He fears the influence of men who go into teaching for the money there is in it, "men who are attracted by high...
...deft and tender handling of a difficult unusual situation, read "The New Romance." Mr. Kister has taken elemental facts, arrayed them cleverly, brooded over them with mature intent Sometimes his style is incredibly young,--or is he dramatizing the youth of this gay if serious adventure...