Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard is greedy, primary and secondary schools are miserly. They take from ten to twelve years in which to prepare men for elementary courses like French 2 or English A. Despite the youth of students of this age, it does seem that this sector of education might be responsible for a survey education of knowledge which would lay the basis for college work...
...surprising to find that youth in these days should still cling to the idea that anyone who believes in the government guiding to some extent the economic processes of the nation must necessarily hate business and all business men, must think that no man who wants to make money is honest, must be out to destroy all private initiative and enterprise...
...townsmen wish to preclude all possibilities of shaking their faith; the students want to examine, to hear, to know. This may be the characteristic contrast between age and youth; it is certainly the principal revelation of the survey questionnaire...
Some two thousand years ago legend ran that a certain king of Pisa in Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was ordered to take off his hat in the building, refrain from smoking, and to keep out of the Sanctum. Ten years later another subdued youth, James Bryant Conant '14, was obeying the same orders. Others such as Walter Lippmann '10 remained in the running only a short time...