Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American colleges each year. They must know Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, or Southern California to be "inferior in solidity to the secondary schools of England and the Continent," yet still they come, and object violently if refused admission. Not long ago an English schoolmaster declared the present English youth to be dishonest, lazy, and irresponsible. It is only a short step from such a general remark to Mr. Flexner's broad assertions concerning American students. Broadly aimed flank attacks of this kind upon the universities and colleges of a nation soon fall to pieces if the writer's assertions...
Several members of the Harvard faculty, and one Oxford graduate, will take part in the discussion tomorrow night at the Youth Political Rally, which is being sponsored by the Young People's Religious Union. The meeting will take place at 7 o'clock in the First Church in Cambridge...
...compose letters to enable girls to enter the Junior League, he has sat through innumerable suppers of scrambled eggs and sausages, he has worn many white ties, and seen countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed he, half born. All this he has done, and may say with the Prophet, "Lord, I have seen...
...stock speculations were responsible for the 1929 crash, stuck doggedly to his claim that worldwide forces were to blame. He insisted Governor Roosevelt* had wilfully ignored such factors as ''the greatest war in history . . . the killing or incapacitating of 40,000,000 of the best youth of the earth . . . the harsh treaties which ended the War . . . the carving of twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase of standing armies from two to five million men . . . revolution in China . . . agitations in India . . . Russia's dumping . . . gigantic overproduction of rubber in the Indies, of sugar in Cuba...
...With all the ludicrous pomposity that misguided sincerity can impart, Rollins college has imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds, "truth, courtesy, cheerful cooperation, and loyalty to Rollins...