Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does a great deal to make sure that most of the business of education has been completed before university life is begun. That is the real secret of her success. It is not merely a question of relying upon strong currents of English culture to lay hold upon a youth and sweep him into the way that he should go. Important steps are taken by the university to encourage these tendencies in the schools...
What Dr. Charles H. Maye, the famous surgeon, remarked last week about the future of education is of vital interest. He says that the whole educational system of today must change if it is to prepare the youth for the future. Among a number of things in modern education, he deplores the absence of training in thinking...
...disadvantage of the small college is obvious. The dramatic element in education does not play a great part in its activities. ... In the last analysis . . . it is through them that each State and section must maintain ample cultural opportunities for the youth within reasonable distance from their homes and in circumstances fitted to the needs of each community and its people...
...scene in the saga of the Rover Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...
Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn...