Show Comparing Two Generations Dr William H I Faunoe president of Brown university In the course of an address at Cooper union one of a series of public lectures said The young people of today as compared with those of 50 years ago are chiefly chief-ly I dollcient In power of sustained attention at-tention and original thinking They cannot or at least they usually do not think as clearly as patiently and as cogently as did their fathers They do not as quickly distinguish the irrelevant ir-relevant from the pertinent tho kernel ker-nel from tho husk as tho men of tho last generation Dr Fauncc said however that the children of this gen eratlon have an amazing fund of general gen-eral Information o |