Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once he fought a strange duel: he and his opponent hid themselves behind targets on an artillery range, lay there all day under the gunfire. At dusk Gurdjieff, unharmed, rescued his antagonist who was wounded, unconscious. He spent his youth wandering in the East, trying everything once. Say his followers, in the Tibetan mountains he found traces of a forgotten way of life, as old as Pythagoras (532 B. C..); he returned to Europe to teach it to a few. He bought the medieval prieuré at Fontainebleau. turned it into his Institute. Institutees lived simply, worked hard, learned complicated Eastern...
...true that youth usually demands the trial and, error method. Nevertheless this psychological pattern might have been understood and dealt with in a more intelligent fashion by the Amherst faculty. A burned child may acquire a beneficial fear of the fire; but a dead one is of no use to anybody...
...appreciative, and remains so even to this day. The Dartmouth Freshmen are, for some reason or other, burning little green caps on the campus. It seems rather heathenish to continue to sacrifice to a pagan deity, but, after all it may be rather nice. At any rate, youth, consistent with ancient Greek precedent, does not fail to carry on the torch...
Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score...
...very little." The national aspects of the question are so large as to render ineffectual the small, shrill voice of the colleges. College debates, discussions, and petitions calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendmen' while they may be interesting, carry little weight. They indicate, however, that the educated youth of the country has an intelligent interest in the question. Harvard's movement in encourage such interest is therefore commendable...