Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words of a member of the class of 1927, reprinted from the first report of the class, place heavy but correct fingers on a weak part of that miraculous machinery which makes a youth into a Sophomore. Honest and broad as are the efforts of University Hall to give Freshmen an complete survey of available fields of concentration, the result is spotty. Practise has proven that neither the most lively lecturer, nor the traditional head of a department, nor the actual head of a department is necessarily the most expert summarizer of the work to which his life is dedicated...
...asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award-if I have a sound moral character-it is because my parents and my religion have taught me the wisdom of not having an immoral character...
...Rises" there came a deluge of supposed decadence. It was of the same variety as, although not identical with, similar deluges in the last decade: such as that caused by Mr. Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise"; and that of the mysterious Mr. Fabian in his happily titled "Flaming Youth." The difference between these and the Hemingway opus was one of starkness and futility; they were romantic--Hemingway was bitter. They wept copiously at their own naughtiness; Hemingway, dry-eyed and sardonic, merely described the catastrophe and agreed with Gertrude Stein that this was indeed "a lost generation...
...volume printed for the William Clements Library of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and also designed by Rogers, was placed on the list. Its title is Franklin's Proposals for the Education of Youth...
...consequences." So cried Secretary G. L. Hostetter of the Chicago Employers' Association last week, when he learned that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had formed a cleaning and dyeing business. Mr. Capone, quixotically, and so incomprehensibly to many competitors, has been trying to consolidate the earnings of his haphazard youth and establish an estate. Mr. Hostetter, however, considers him only a common assassin. But, companion at arms is what Mr. Capone's respectable business associate, Morris Becker, Chicago cleaning and dyeing baron for 42 years esteems him. Said Baron Becker last week: "I now have no need...