Youth and the New World Essays from the Atlantic Monthly

1921. The purpose of this book is to acquaint young men and women with some of the problems that concern America...The editor has found in his own experience in the teaching of English composition that students write best when they are stimulated to self-expression by ideas that seem to them important and pertinent to their own interests and ability. The relation of youth's new time to the experience of age; education, which for so many years is his major interest; the spirit of America, and especially disputed points of economic and political organization; the changing nature of our population, with its difficulties of adjustment of racial elements; the new and growing importance of women in the state; the problem of international organization; and, finally, the importance of spiritual values-these are the themes which the essays in this book illustrate.Boas, Ralph Philip is the author of 'Youth and the New World Essays from the Atlantic Monthly' with ISBN 9781417936328 and ISBN 1417936320.