Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called it a report on "the sex mores of our younger generation." Dorothy Dunbar Bromley is a columnist for Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, Florence Haxton Britten a former staff member of the New Republic and Hearst's International. To find out what U. S. youth thinks and does about Sex, these two married women interviewed and probed with questionnaires 1,364 men & women students in 46 colleges and universities. They avoided the faculties of these institutions, went straight to the horse's mouth. One women's college president banned their questionnaire, a professor...
Stating that the murals are a strong incentive to the youth of Harvard to glorify war, F. Welch Peel '39, president of the organization, condemned the false patriotism behind them. "We feel that jingoism of this sort was mainly responsible for the pointless slaughter of American youth on foreign soil in the World War," Peel declared...
...author lived from 1819 to 1891, and is noted for his adventurous novels of the sea and South Sea Island life. His novels were based on the experiences of his youth which included capture by cannibals and subsequent rescue, and also service on a whaler...
Three days later Mrs. Roosevelt was in Boston to tell the sociologist alumnae of Simmons College about the "Problems of Youth," to whom "after all, divorce isn't a problem. All they want to do is get married." Baited for a retort to Mrs. Feehan, tactful Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and to say them...
...program says "Members of the Courtney School have taken tables"--and here they come; with the plainness of youth in their faces they hurry self-consciously down the aisle. Betty Alden has left her Beacon Hill underworld to jot notes on criminals at large and passes by to speak to the Herald's music critic. Tomorrow we will see in her column, "Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience...