Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Youth is brave, but youth is cruel. Last week, two dozen young Negroes of Gary, Ind., were mortified by 1,357 young whites of Gary, Ind., probably more painfully than any adult Negro ever lynched by rabid adult whites...
Father. "The meaning of a loss from a family of a youth in the prime of his life, with his high hopes and those of his parents centred upon his future cannot be understood except by those who have experienced it. When that loss comes the sun is darkened, and from brightness the future turns to gloom. The map of life is changed in the twinkling of an eye. To a mother it seems hardly worth the living...
...there was born to the Rev. Lyman Beecher, a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...
...hurly-burly over the post war rush of American youth to the educational institutions of the country, a great deal has been said about limiting enrollment, selective admission regulations, and other machinery which would enable the universities and colleges to protect themselves from the thundering herd. Dean Gauss points out that much of this responsibility of selection might well be delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents...
...virus the CRIMSON is only too ready to render honor where honor is due. No one denies that for the spectators the game is perhaps the most fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable of all athletic contests. Rhapsodies have been written about the tang of November twilights, the spirit of youth in friendly rivalry, the benefits of sport for sport's sake; and the fundamental theme is still as it always has been--true...