Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists' rally, the opening of the second World Youth Congress...
...Congress is a lusty two-year-old offspring of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies. Its pur poses: to exchange youths' ideas, educate them for international cooperation, rally them to united action for preventing war. To carry out this ambitious program the first World Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their...
With dark-haired, spectacled Joseph Cadden, 25, leader of the U. S. National Student Federation when he was at Brown, and now a Providence newspaperman, as chairman, youth ran its own show in grownup style. From a big pressroom a dozen telegraph tickers sent correspondents' reports to the world press. At plenary sessions delegates had earphones (such as the League of Nations uses) through which they heard English, French or Spanish translations of speeches. Highlight: India's Yusuf Meherally shrilling: "181 years of British rule have reduced India to appalling poverty, mass illiteracy, malnutrition and disease...
...comrades to support collective security. The Congress decided it had not lost faith in the League of Nations, urged the League to recognize Germany and Italy as the aggressors in Spain, proposed to end war in the Far East by boycotts of Japan. As the second World Youth Congress adjourned, some of the delegates, who had only one-way tickets, turned to lecturing and hitchhiking to get home...
...universities, compared them with the same students' earlier records-high-school marks, extracurricular activities, etc. Some of their findings were trite: that a student who has a good average in high school, or rates high in intelligence tests, is likely to get good marks in college; that a youth who works for part of his college expenses gets lower than average marks, but a determined 100% self-supporting student ranks above the average...