Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to ask if that is the best we can do in the education of Youth today...
...officiating at an altar covered with a cloth. In his right hand he holds a censer, in the left a book, but both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather...
...professors, who have been practicing daily under the direction of Norman Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, did surprisingly well, but the comparative youth of the assistant deans showed toward the end of each game, enabling them to secure the needed margin of victory over the crafty faculty aggregation. C. P. Biddle and Esty Foster '21 starred for the deans...
...faculties of our colleges and universities remains to be seen. Official boards, trustees, and presidents, though usually in favor of peace, often have a way of disregarding the wishes of their students when these depart from tradition or run counter to the ambition of vested military interests to use youth for their own purposes. But we are hopeful that this poll may stimulate teachers, especially, to keep on courageously with their task of freeing their institutions from the clutches of war ideology...
...preparatory school senior is a youth singularly uninformed upon the question of his educational future. If he comes to Harvard, he comes, as a rule, because his father graduated from here, or because he has obtained a scholarship, or because he has always vaguely, unintelligently liked it. If he is seeking his intellectual fortune elsewhere he very possibly dislikes Harvard because it has no campus, or because of its indifference, or because it is near a large city. He has made his decision on purely artificial knowledge which he is forced to utilize in the absence of any real acquaintance...