Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...
Vice President Curtis's favorite audience is young people, to whom he delivers a set speech. He used it upon the Senate pages at their Christmas dinner. Last fortnight he wrote it out for publication in the Yale News. Excerpts: "Never have opportunities so crowded themselves upon youth. . . . Youth is at a high premium; its courage and zest is its priceless asset. . . . National prosperity rests upon the quality of leadership developed and sponsored in youth-the leaders of tomorrow...
Even though the Latin temperament seems to prefer outbreaks in favor of autocracy, and the Nordic revolts a means to further Democracy, the younger generation of the world reverts to riots as the logical method of expression. It is Youth's eternal privilege to be indiscreet...
...classic calm of the near-by Charles River. And now I think I have hit upon it. Harvard somehow seems eternal. You wander through old Harvard Yard in the twilight, and the whispering trees seem to tell you that Harvard will survive forever, waiting in serene expectancy for youth to come and share its treasure of knowledge. You wander across the Oklahoma oval, and the thought crosses your mind that perhaps the next legislature will decide to cut off the university's finances and give the money to the teachers' colleges...
...course there is no such thing as the typical Harvard man, although it interests--or irritates--people who didn't go to Harvard to believe every now and then that they have discovered him. If a well-dressed youth with a broad 'A', and an abnormal ignorance of the life practical, appears in a Western town, the business man from whom he seeks employment, after sounding the profoundest depths of his incap...