Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commenting on the cold shoulder that Harvard men ordinarily turn towards "student movements", a national youth leader recently pointed out that the traditional spirit of indifference in Cambridge is the direct result of academic freedom. In pinning on liberty of thought the failure of undergraduates to rise and riot for more serious subjects than Richard, the expert in youth movements has struck to the core of the matter. For although other factors contribute to the Harvard man's seeming lack of interest in the world about him, the priceless heritage of freedom, for which the college for generations has carried...
After President Conant's talk, President William Mather Lewis, of Lafayette College, attacked the philosophy of constant speed in educational method. Attributing emotional instability of youth to attempts of educators to dispense with purely cultural instruction in secondary schools, he advocated courses in music, art, and physical education...
...Washington to mix labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...
When Miss Loh got out of the hospital, the All China Students Union elected her to one of the five seats on its directorate, hailed her as "The Joan of Arc of China" and sent her to the recent World Youth Congress in Geneva. There, warned by typical Geneva pussyfooters that she must not attack Japan, she delivered a flaming speech in denunciation of a country which she left unnamed...
...before the Dillinger case put him in headlines. Unmarried, he collects biographies, has a pet cocker spaniel, shoots and rides for recreation. He resigned from the Bureau of Investigation last year, organized the "Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man Corps" for Post Toasties because, he says, "the training of our youth has been sadly neglected." Now living in San Francisco, he has taken the California bar examination, moves in the best social circles, plans to practice civil...