Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard definitely get the go-ahead signal until Congress appropriates the necessary funds to the National Youth Administration, and until the N.Y.A. in turn allocates a certain amount for the use of Harvard students. Congress probably will not vote on the question until late June, but College officials are proceeding on the assumption that the money will appropriated at that time...
Under the N.Y.A. program, the University will obtain part-time jobs for 600 students, to be financed by the government-operated National Youth Administration. This will be the first year that Harvard has used the N.Y.A. funds; the Corporation had voted against the plan...
Making much of the fact that the meeting was initiated by the American Youth Congress and given the support of the Student Union, irate members of Gene Tunney's Youth Foundation helped the convention off to a heated beginning by handing out pamphlets branding it as the "Junior Fifth Column...
...delegates had hoped for publicity on their proposals for greater tolerance and freedom in education but when F. Stephen McArthur Jr. eastern director of the Youth Foundation was shouted down and thrown out after proposing an anti-Red resolution papers all over the country played...
After considering the effects of conscription upon the students, the Conference approved a plan to prohibit the drafting of undergraduates until the end of the academic year. Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, called for "more scholarships, not more battleships" and asked that students organize, as in England, to defer their conscription into the Army until after graduation...