Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland, high-school principals sent letters to pupils just before schools reopened. They pleaded the country's need of educated citizens, youth's need of education. Result: Cleveland had more pupils in September than in June...
...newspaper on the border went through back numbers of Konstanz' local Bodensee Rundschau, found 3,785 obituary announcements for 3,575 men, 210 officers killed on the Russian front between June 22, 1941 and Dec. 1, 1943. The oldest, Artillery General Foehrenbach, was 70; the youngest, a Hitler Youth volunteer, was 17. Forty-three per cent were married...
...Gaslight Sonatas, Humoresque. Her 1915 marriage to Pianist Jacques Danielson was kept secret until 1920, then made a newspaper sensation when Author Hurst announced that she and her husband kept separate apartments. She traveled in Europe, made three visits to Russia, came back enthusiastic. Said she: "Pervading all the youth there is a superb arrogance. It is a country where the old people belong to yesterday...
...asked to speak on the general question, "Should Youth Enter Politics?" I thought youth should enter politics because in youth's hands rests the future, and because interest in political questions was the best training for responsible citizenship without which democracy can never survive. I mentioned too that this fact was at the bottom of maintaining the peace, since world peace was as much a question of men as of systems. From those premises my argument proceeded. Lawrence Fernsworth, Nieman Fellow...
Speaking on the topic of "Students in the Nation," Fernsworth lashed out strongly against what he termed clerical fascism and bureaucracy in this country. The British system of selecting children and training them from youth to hold positions in government, was also upheld by him, in contrast to this country's policy of supplying such training in colleges for those who wish to avail themselves of it. He did not specify whether this selection was to be based upon intelligence or caste...