Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cape Cod fisher folk, presented with a wealth of detail. The foot of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley's "Men must work and women must weep," and the cast is capable ? except when they let their emotions run away with their faces...
...true source of the danger is that the commencement speech has become a habit. Its subject, its method, its technique is not changed to meet altered conditions. The flimsy subterfuge, "at no time before the youth of the country, etc," falls, for it too is habitual. The oldest living graduate, should his memory only serve him, would enjoy the familiar flourishes and fancies, the admonitions to develop character, industry, leadership, which he knew so well...
Nowhere is the influence of Harvard more pervasive than in her far-flung line of teachers. She has long recognized that one of the first jobs of a University is to train the teachers of the country. If universities did not do this the education of our youth and the soundness of our citizenry would indeed be jeopardized. Students who feel the urge of public service, who desire to help in transmitting to the younger, and indirectly to the future, their university riches would do well, therefore, to listen to this call for college teaching, and to reflect...
Granted the wish, how should a youth decide whether he is fitted for teaching? By impersonal self-analysis, buttressed by frank talks with discerning friends and,-specially, with those teachers with whom he feels in real rapport. He must, of course, like the subjects that he wishes to teach; he must wish to impart his knowledge; he must have real sympathy with boys (a fairly safe augury of an eventual understanding of them); he must not be over-impatient of the apparently indifferent, for many of these are but asleep, and in such lies the real challenge to his ingenuity...
...sound ideal. There can be no dispute about that. We next come to leadership, a very important factor in any case, but of vital consequence in a movement designed to become world-wide. And in this connection I would appeal with all the earnestness at my command to youth to see that it is worthily repre- sented in so great a cause. Here is a fine ambition for the young man of parts who desires to serve his fellow-creatures. As I asked in my previous article: what is American Youth going to do about...