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Youth Zones
YOUTH
Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale, said of youth at a tea in New Haven:
"I find youth modest, almost over-modest. I don't agree with the accepted idea of youth that is epitomized in the anecdote.
"According to this anecdote, an old man said to a youth:
"'My boy, when I was your age I thought, like you, that I knew it all, but now I have reached the conclusion that I know nothing.'
"The youth, lighting a cigaret, answered carelessly:
"'Hm! I reached that conclusion about you years ago.'"
ZONES
While inspecting examination papers recently, a teacher found various humorous answers to questions. A class of boys, averaging twelve years of age, had been examined in geography. The previous day had been devoted to grammar. Among the geographical questions was the following:
"Name the zones."
One promising youth, who had mixed the two subjects, wrote: "There are two zones, masculine and feminine. The masculine is either temperate or intemperate; the feminine is either torrid or frigid!"