Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly he was not the last, to deride us. James Bryce handed down an indictment or two and Siegfried and others have expanded his question into volumes. The tone has become more bitter since the United States became the creditor of Europe. The critics make few allowances for the youth of the nation. They compare our developing civilization with the crystallized customs of countries which were mellowed when Americans were felling the forests and striving for mastery over nature. American culture is still in process. Meanwhile, the average American, comparing our general well-being with distressed conditions elsewhere, can detect...
...romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded by the chivalrous concepts of Alfred Tennyson...
Vinegar Tree. Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely...
...over 75% of each graduating class here, for example, can show either the intellectual fibre or the vocational urge to justify higher education. . . . Colleges are full not because youth loves learning, but because society loves college and has for the years between 18 and 22 little to offer...
...When some one is brave enough to found a society for the prevention of going to college, its memberships will be snapped up by schoolmasters who know youth best and who value it most sympathetically...