Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Alexander Hamilton, its first trustee, is illustrated in the apocryphal story that its quarterbacks call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration's offer of aid to its students. But even Hamilton, on whose board of trustees sits Old Grad Alexander Woollcott, as well as Elihu Root Jr., has made some concessions to the times. Last year it dropped Latin and Greek as an entrance requirement, later abolished the fraternities...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson is the breath and body of the News. Educated at Groton and Yale, he came through without a single inhibition. In his youth he was a storming Socialist. Today he is a plutocratic proletarian among publishers. Carelessly dressed, he rides the subways, goes to the movies with his two million readers...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston speaks to almost anybody, but his thoughts are definitely heavenward. He is 77, and in his old age he broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing...
...content is removed by a camera shot of a blowing newspaper dated October 1920, still more by removal of all definite party labels. What is left is a love story, beautifully told and consummately acted, but so drenched in hopelessness and heavy with the aroma of death, of wasted youth in a world of foggy shapes and nameless menaces, that its beauty and strength are often clouded and betrayed...
...What are we coming to, I say. For all anyone knows, these men may be moral perverts and as I remarked to my wife, they probably are. Imagine exposing our Youth to this kind of thing. It is American. It makes my blood bell...