Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemparary reorganization can hardly be over-emphasized. It will not only provide for that element now in the university which the requirements will shut out. It will also silence the accusations of intellectual exclusiveness of "shutting the gates of higher learning to the great mass of our American youth", which the legislative mind is particularly prone to absorb and to act upon for the benefit of seats at the next elections...
Although interested in medicine, she would not allow a male doctor to attend her. When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted. "What? Lady graduate in man's gown?" she said, and went back to China a devout Christian...
...education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...
...into instant activity. She is Chung Ling Soong, widow of Sun Yat Sen, who has become a God to half of China. She is a graduate of Wesleyan College, Georgia, one of the first colleges for girls in the South. When Pelin falls and a unified China restored to youth faces the world, the colleges of America may well lay claim to that honored title, nurseries of a nation...