Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortunately for the good of the nation's youth, the will to win is still a prized heritage, handed down from generation to generation of American life. Because the will to win is not confined to Harvard, but is an inheritance of an American people whose struggle for existence has never permitted a majority of the citizenry to live for the pure enjoyment of living, all teams which meet Harvard on the athletic field have the same goal of victory at stake...
...announcement of plans for the organization of an alumni society of Phi Beta Kappa in Boston, aimed at the development of liberal scholarship, indicates that a very real need may be filled. The founders declare that our day requires "a philosophy of education which will prevent youth from being in a hurry to grow up." This, and similar crusades, Phi Beta Kappa will endeavor to formulate and to popularize...
Said philosophical Editor William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette: "As one grows into one's middle sixties death seems more reasonable than it does in childhood and youth. The thought of death used to terrify me. Now it seems a natural thing, a part of life, just another experience, whatever it is. So many of my friends have faced it, why not I? In the meantime, why fret about it? I have been shaving this funny old face every Sunday. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for years and years. I have come to look...
...fear that the truth about non-athletic cuts will get into the headlines, also, things have been happening throughout educational America that are really much more alarming than the more spectacular events of which we all know. One is continually hearing that the Depression is a great teacher of youth. Yet it is just as obvious, and almost as trite, to observe that the Depression is worse than war or pestilence in the way it takes educational opportunities away from youth and raises havoc with students and teachers alike...
...France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...