Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week war hung like a thundercloud over the 24th annual meeting of the American Council on Education. Representatives of the 534 schools and teachers' associations were told about the effects of war on youth-as they have been in Britain, as they are developing in the U.S., as they are likely to be when war is over...
Planning for Peace. Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves, small, balding director of the Council's American Youth Commission, director of labor supply and training for the Office of Production Management, raised the question: What will happen to some 4,000,000 young people from 16 to 25 who (as in the past decade) may be neither employed nor in school when the war emergency ends? Many U.S. youths of these ages are now either serving in the Army & Navy or employed in defense industries. The Administration's expected solutions of this post-war idleness...
...addition to public works and conservation projects, youth may be kept busy producing goods for families on relief, building and operating community clubs and playgrounds for themselves...
Said Dr. Reeves dryly: "It is ridiculous to have youth unemployed while they themselves need goods and services...
Harvard students, especially residents in this state, should participate in the sessions in Boston, make the contribution of which they are capable and profit from association with other young people of varying background and creed. Further information concerning program, speakers, etc., may be secured from the Massachusetts Youth Council, 38 Chauncy St., Boston, Devonshire 8860. Lawrence Shubow...