Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fill its quota of 56 men. So far the applications have been few and far between--five or six are all that are on file. We want competition for these camps just as for the athletic teams. Our 56 make up the squad that faces the rest of American youth in competition for commissions. It must be made up of the best of our military organization...
...callow youth, privileged to write for one of the evening papers from Camp Grant, declares that "the salute must go," that "the American people are not given to permitting themselves to be lowered socially by any mark of deference...
...dismissals of Professors Cattell and Dana. Why? In most walks of life a man who fails to make good loses his job; and what failure can be more disastrous than a moral failure? No man can assail the national policy now without aiding Kaiserism. No man can counsel youth to disobey the law and expect to escape the consequences. New York World...
...upperclassman. Under the present Reign of Terror where the cost of living is impossible and Follies' seats cost three dollars the Freshman must keep from his home unless he wishes to go into receivers' hands. A pup-tent on Soldiers' Field seems the only solution; there at least, the youth from 1921 can rest in peace...
...very hard for even the oldest head in these times of fierce commotion to settle down to the book and pen. The blood of youth is very hot, and when the bugle blows to war young men are stirred by the desire for great deeds. Not one year in the past half century have the history book and the poetry book and the philosophy book seemed more vain and idle...