Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still sees through the eyes of youth. . . . Time has not dulled his sense of news. He wants to make people laugh, cry, to stir them with his own eagerness for news and his passion for the greatness of America."-Older...
...educational opportunities offered to him. This theory has been put in to practice by the large sums of money that the country spends each year on its State Universities, with a resulting high percentage of young men and women who have had a college education, as contrasted with the youth of Europe. To go to college is "the thing to do" socially, as well as from the economic standpoint...
...further finding of the students that the department is fortunate in its number of younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both scholar and teacher. As time passes, these men will themselves constitute the group the department at present lacks; meanwhile their comparative youth ensures close contact and sympathy between faculty and students. Were the lack of 'elder statesmen' the only ground for criticizing the department, Harvard might feel fairly satisfied with is instruction in government...
Harder to assess, the Commission found, were the spiritual ravages of Depression. Educational and vocational opportunities shrunk together. Hard times struck the nation's young folk with a cruel one-two punch. Last year, in the traditional Home of Free Education, only 60% of the youth of high-school age stayed in school while only 15% beyond high-school age squeezed into college. The rest, thought the Commission's Director Homer Price Rainey, "constitute not only an employment but an education problem...
Unsuccessfully searching for jobs, according to the New Deal's National Youth Administration, are between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 youths. Director Rainey uses the lower figure, estimates that 4.700,000 of these youngsters are "unemployed, not in school, and seeking work"; another 300,000 are "unemployed, not in school, and not seeking work." Of the latter the gloomy survey observes: "When one has been without a job for . . . years, the ambition to secure a position gradually subsides...