Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from its ringing appeal to Advisory Councilors (who thus far have made no reply), the Open Letter devoted itself chiefly to an interpretation of the Lucky Strike campaign (which, however, it failed to mention by name) as subversive to the youth of the nation. Having told how millions of "young men, women and children" assemble to hear the Lucky Strike radio orchestra, the Letter pointed out that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these...
Indeed, as far as the theory that U. S. youth is going Over the Hill to the Poorhouse is concerned, tobacco men feel that the woman smoker has become an accepted element in the contemporary U. S. scene, and that abstinence from sweets is dictated not by the Lucky campaign but by present fashion...
...towards hair-splitting conversation. The law first attracted him and he attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...
...following review of the current parody issue of the Lampoon was written by Harford W. H. Powel, Jr., '09, a former president of the comic and at present editor of the Youth's Companion...
...Lowell continued with remarks on the duty of educators, saying in closing, "The question is the attitude with which we send the graduates our and the extent to which we instil into youth respect for the greatness of human thought...