Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stop Flirting. There are very few more unhappy spectacles than the full-length comedy that is not funny. This one attempts to show how a vast influx of suitors to his lady's hand will cure a youth of flirting with other ladies. There is a good deal of cracking crockery and three characters dressed like the Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying...
...difficulty of finding any satisfactory formula for the value of a college education is due to the latter rather than to the former of these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation for life, or that the burden of proof rests upon him who would argue against it rather than upon him who would argue for it. But just what benefit should be expected...
What is the answer? What can be learned from this bewildering variety of testimony for the guidance of educational policy? One thing seems to stand out clearly. The period of college life is the period in which the plasticity of youth and the maturity of manhood overlap. All influences received during this period are likely to be profound and lasting. Since his college life is almost his only life during these years, and since a student attends college not only with his mind, but with his body and his soul as well, the college touches him at every point...
...promotion of learning, but as a general environment and organization of life. Its problem is two-fold: on the one hand, how may the mind be most profoundly awakened and most richly nourished? On the other hand, how may the conditions of life and forms of human association, for youth in the late teens and early twenties, be made most healthful and invigorating, physically, morally, and socially? Harvard Alumni Bulletin...