Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thompson established the SPT as a valid instrument for distinguishing among children already showing behavioral difficulties, those who are true delinquents from those whose maladapted behavior is temporary. The SPT showed that among a representative group of 100 boys, included originally in a research project called the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, it would again have been possible to identify accurately 91 per cent of all the boys as either potential delinquents or as non-delinquents...
...discriminative potential of the SPT was found to be considerably greater than that of three clinicians (a psychiatrist, psychologist, and criminologist who had been initially charged with selecting the boys for the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Thompson reported that the clinicians had correctly identified only 65 per cent in comparison with 91 per cent correctly identified...
Thompson, in a third experiment, applied the table to 50 girls, committed to the Division of Youth Service of the Massachusetts Department of Education between November, 1954, and May, 1955. This was only the second application of the test to girl delinquents. The first had been done by the Jewish Board of Guardians, in 1953, on 150 unmarried mothers, whereby it was found that 81 per cent of the women would have been correctly identified...
This program comes under a reciprocal exchange agreement between the Soviet Youth Organization and the Council on Student Travel. The Experiment, as one of the members of the Council and as sponsor of an American student tour of Russia the past two summers, is supervising the travels of half of the Soviet delegation. The Committee on Friendly Relations is in charge of the other half of the student group...
...essayist proceeds however to draw some intriguing but quite probably specious conclusions about the mental state of today's American youth, its confusion over a double moral standard: the hedonistic view of the individual versus the Victorian ethos of the community. The essayist exhorts all future writers of Harvard Square sex-fiction to probe more deeply into the unhappiness which is the apparent outcome in most of the stories under discussion, and come up with a moral framework which is bigger, better and all in all more valid than that which exists or is in the process of ceasing...