The American Student: A Profile

The American Student: A Profile

During the past few years a number of articles have appeared characterizing the “younger generation” as one which does not “issue manifestoes, make speeches, or carry posters,” a generation silent and undissenting. Thornton Wilder has argued in Harper’s that this is the “ruminating” generation, “facing the too-long delayed task of consolidating its liberty and impressing upon it a design.” Cleon Holmes, in the New York Times


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