Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ridiculed are the very ones which need the best material, and school teaching is no exception. Those who teach because they can do nothing else, fall notoriously in that, as every school boy knows. Only too often, however, necessity leaves to them the payment of "the eternal debt of age to youth--education...
Hitherto all suggestions have been for an exchange of students of University age, to accomplish on a large scale what the Rhodes Scholarships are doing for Colonials and Americans in Oxford and what the Chapman and Fiske scholarships since the war are doing at Harvard. Dr. Drury's plan deals not with University students, but with schoolboys. He suggests the sending of a hundred American boys next September to study for a year in European schools and in return to receive five hundred European boys in American schools...
...their sons spend a year alone in a European school, or whether Dr. Drury considers one American boy the equivalent of five French. But after pushing aside such objections, there remains the one serious criticism: How much can boys of the high school senior or preparatory school sixth form age benefit by a year in an institution whose traditions, institutions and in most cases whose language is foreign to them? Are they not likely to be too young to understand the ideals and aspirations of the national life about them, while just old enough to feel strange...
...Debts". The audience felt a trifle conspicuous in the vast emptiness of the Opera House, but the comedy soon put them at ease. It is a pity that revivals must always be veiled in the odor of sanctity, to be approached only with the deference due to age. Philip Massinger did not write for antiquarians and students of literature. He wrote for the gallants and ladies of Elizabeth, for their drapers and tapsters, their coachmen and chambermaids--and he won them all. He was the Winchell Smith of his age: and there is not a great deal of difference...
Columbus, your withered age, and your hair whitened with frost...