Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionists are finding trouble in their own ranks. Liberals and extremists are divided on the question of acceptance of the pact made by Gandhi with the British government. The Mahatma was attacked recently on his way to the meeting of the Nationalist Congress by members of the New Youth of India League, a radical organization which declares that Gandhi is no longer India's real leader having compromised with England...
...till this point the Vagabond realizes he has been engaged in purely destructive criticism. What to do about it? Well, he remembers, in his youth, a picture entitled "Curfew Shall not Ring To-Night", showing a beautiful maiden clinging to the clapper of a large church bell. On nights when the Lowell bells threaten to ring the authorities might send over to Radcliffe for nineteen beautiful maidens--but then this suggestion, too, seems to present some peculiar difficulties...
...true, too true, about the futility of it all. Civilization, gilding the pale flower of decadence, leaves its enervated Youth to weave with whitened fingers the social daisy chain in which he must finally strangle. However, the Way toward regeneration still lies open; it all comes down to a question of values. While the "Princeton Manner", that debutante manna, may make idols of the sad young man, the "Princetonian" advises, and rightly so, that a veneer is but a veneer, and that a zest, an enthusiasm, that indefinable "joi de vivre", is, after all, the requisite for achievement. When that...
...last decade the mind of skeptical youth has indulged itself in a period of criticism of the old order, of challenge, of destruction of apparently valueless tradition. It has sought from the rostrum of the lecture-hall and from the pulpit something solid and of enduring value. It has sought to free itself from the clutches of pure sentimentality and heroics. And now the new decade is destined to build a finer educational and ethical structure upon the sturdy foundations from which has been removed the incubus of the inglorious edifice inherited from our elders. The destructive criticism...
Such were the remarks and hopes voiced from the speaker's table in last night's celebration of the physical middle-age but spiritual youth of the News. They do not constitute a "God's in his heaven." Utopian vision of the future, but a recognition of the trend of events already in progress. Here at Yale, the next few years will see the inception of the new Colleges System, the increasing importance of education as emphasized by the more rigorous (although broader and less specific) requirements of the new curriculum, and a greater interest in the informality of intramural...