Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...
...excited as the youngest of his partners?a youth of 27 named John Fletcher Caskey who referred reverentially to the senior partner as "the judge." Only eight short years ago he came to the Yale Law School right out of Cassville in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. The corn, said New Havenites, was growing rapidly out of his hair. It was therefore with some astonishment that his law mates observed him standing No. 1 in his class at the end of his first year and at the end of his course. That such a man, still bashful, should this year...
...forced to resign from his University of Michigan post within a year. The other was Clarence Cook Little, the university's president, whose administration policies the Board of Regents politically dislike. Dr. Little (a doctor of science, not of medicine) has returned to the genetics study of his youth. Also he is now director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...During my stay in New York I have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...
...characterization of the French collegian, appearing elsewhere on these pages, strikes a note seriously critical of American universities. Inspiring is this picture of serious youth bent whole-heartedly over its books; decadent and inefficient in contrast appears America's counterpart. "The university-trained Frenchman is without peer in the world of education", ecstatically sings the Boston Post...