Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater or less degree that is what happened here yesterday. Campus opinion was unanimous in its approval of the program of "The Veterans of Future Wars," organized at Princeton to get a bonus for the youth of the country. The economic aspect of the plan came in for particular praise. No one could deny that the granting of the bonus would aid Mr. Hopkins to get rid of that embarrassing "wad" he is trying to dispose of, and as young 'uns are notoriously good spenders, the effect on the depression would be incalculable. As for the justice of the demands...
Anent "experience," Dr. Taylor looks back along 47 years on a poverty stricken youth, postgraduate work at Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, the accident which crushed his hands and ruined his hope of becoming a professional organist, a superintendency of schools in Oregon, and nation-wide wandering as a Chautauqua lecturer. Out of this he has the formula for successfully throwing oil on trouble human waters. Remembering his youth, he gives organized charity the sizeable contributions he receives from well-wishers...
...last three years have done better scholastically than other Freshmen with the same admission averages, and that the percentage of failures were fewer. It is a well known fact that men who have a steady job or outside activity, such as managerial work, literary competitions, or even national youth movements, do much better on the average than those who merely eat and sleep their way through Harvard...
Sirs: Just how does Mr. James E. Van Zandt get the idea that college boys are "too yellow to go to war" (TIME, March 30)? My impression: the courage of our college youth is equal to that of any group in the U. S. Mr. Van Zandt surely knows that all the members of his honored American Legion did not rush to the colors in 1917. Louis A. BLEDSOE Superintendent of Schools Sorento...
...required to combat the forces behind the bill. These forces are numerous, powerful and utterly unscrupulous. First comes Representative Dorgan, father of many eye-catching, hollow and communist-baiting bits of worthless legislation. Mr. Dorgan's forte lies in bills to purify the theatre (especially Shakespeare), keep our American youth unsullied from the myriad wiles and snares of Moscow, and prevent the Red universities of Massachusetts from completely seducing the young...