Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the definition of the happiest person as "he who thinks the most interesting thoughts." Following up this rather Aristolelian idea to its logical conclusions, with a human and good common sense which take from the subject much of its inherent moralizing. Professor Phelps discusses in turn education, old age, health wealth and bovine contentment and their relation to the universally desired happiness, with a result that the 50 pages of the little book contain almost as many interesting and withal surprisingly novel ideas...
...reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that...
Before the Rinehart custom began, however, there was another means of getting students to put their heads out of the windows and shout. All through the nineteenth century, whenever there came across the Yard a woman, be she young, middle-aged, or old and wrinkled, the cry went forth "Heads Out!" and windows were flung up as other students took up the shout. With the coming of the Gibson girl to the "Annex"--in other words Radcliffe--and the end of the Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical...
...himself, and the struggles were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from his back ... And now, in this soft age, men merely pelt confetti at their girls, and are pelted in return...
...curious thing about Harvard customs, or at least about the stories that have become traditional, is that they are invariably founded on fact, and not only that, but they are in main accurate and devoid of exageration. Perhaps in some future age old tales will be told how Professor Kittredge personally horsewhipped every man who dared to have a cold, and how, on the President's daily walks, the scuffings of the Presidential dog marked the spot where the next College building was to rise. But no Harvard's motto will still be "Veritas...