Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invasion of Princeton. The debate tonight is the last of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular series, and it also marks the close of the Eastern Debating League season. The University team will uphold the affirmative of the question "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age" This is the same subject that was contested in the Harvard Yale debate two weeks...
...anyone who has had the slightest acquaintance with philosophy as expressed in the writings of its disciples, the idea of philosophy, forced upon an uncongenial mind, is as crude as its ludicrous. Yet no one in this age of mechanical method and mass manner can call himself a true student, does he remain uncongenial to philosophy. For philosophy, to mention the obvious, is the circle of which all the sciences and history and literature and the segments. It is man's attempt to see the whole in a manner abstracted from the prejudices of flesh and the trivialities of custom...
...accurate character drawing and the breezy naturalness of the dialogue. Like all pieces of its kind, the moving motive is the struggle for athletic supremacy. . . . "Brown of Harvard" will greatly please the younger set, nor will it to other than give pleasure to those of a more advanced age...
...rolling stone, says the age-old proverb, gathers no moss, and by a slight extension of the idea it might be added, that a vagabond is as little likely to acquire property. Yet property is a rather pleasant thing to hear about, and it something about it. So after due consideration I think that I shall probably be found at nine o'clock this morning on my way to Harvard 2 to hear Professor Yeomans speak in Government 19b on the conflict between the police power and the so-called Due Process clause with especial emphasis on how this opposition...
...last stage of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debating series for this season will be held next Saturday at Princeton. The debate, which will be decided largely on the merits of oratory, hinges on the resolution: "That education is the curse of the present age." The University team, consisting of E. C. Sibley '28, Barrett Williams '28, and D. W. Chapman '27, will uphold the affirmative in the argument...