Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children. The social workers at Boston seemed rather a grim group, the old of no particular old age, the young without youth. Most were women. They all hurried about with tight faces. The more genial faces belonged to members of the various children's groups. J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia, was their philosopher. Noted he: "We cannot be strictly logical about human beings. We can prophesy with accuracy about masses of people?but not about individuals. Approximately 70,000 illegitimate children will be born in the U. S. in 1930, but no community can foretell who of its people...
...Alumni College at Lafayette was founded on the theory that the college is not fulfilling its true function unless it at least offers the opportunity to its alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest...
Thus far the life of His Majesty since early youth has been a series of exclusively amorous escapades. Yet today these are of less than no importance to his people. They showed their feelings last week by a frenzied all-night demonstration of relief and joy. Rumania, like the Biblical father of the prodigal son, seemed to say: "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. . . . Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry...
...these artists . . . the opportunity is offered for the enlargement and fuller development of their knowledge and talents through first-hand contact with the record of the past and in close association with one another. What the Academy offers ... is not meant to be a benevolent assistance to worthy youth, but the means whereby the best talent discoverable may be raised to its highest powers for the elevation of American...
...professors in English were to try it there would be 50 per cent, of failures, just as the result hovers around that figure today of the sophomores. This English examination is outrageously difficult--stupid questions by writers of text-books who are ignorant of the limitations of the average youth. Why, after a semester of study, dig up questions that flunk 50 or 60 per cent, of the class...