Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman to Another, in 1919 Service and Sacrifice, and in 1921 a biography, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed she has always been a devoted admirer of her brother, saying that if George Washington was the father of his country, her brother was the brother of his country. Age cannot stale her strenuosity of life...
...their hands last week as the London firm of Longmans, Green & Co.* issued two new volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views...
...Quaternary Ice Age" is the general subject of a series of six illustrated Shaler Memorial Lectures to be given by Dr. Ernst Antevs, Docent of the University of Stockholm. The first lecture, "Criteria and Causes of Glacination," will be given this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room in the University Museum...
...training teachers. Less attention has been paid to the far-reaching effects of primary and intermediate education. President Angell refers to the fact that the American boy, as compared with his British and Continental cousin, somewhere loses about two years. The graduate of a French lycee at the age of sixteen years, for example, is in scholastic attainment about two years ahead of American youth of the same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated in America, such as military service, economic pressure, and extreme standardization of instruction. There...
...France a child ten years of age is already accustomed to study, while in America "home work" appears at a comparatively late stage and is likely to be regarded as an extraordinary hardship. As a result many a boy finds himself on the last lap of what is supposed to be his education without ever having learned to study. Regardless of all other factors, there is a pretty constant ratio between attainment and application, and until the American boy begins seriously to exert himself from an earlier age it is not likely that any other reforms will greatly affect...