Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education, or their parents. They experience usually a number of memorial celebrations of one sort or another. The difficulty with such celebrations is in making them reminders, not that men of not have been dead a certain number of years or that a college hall has reached a dignified age, but reminders of the thing in these men that made them worthy of remembrance...
...students of Harvard who found themselves temporarily bed less and homeless this year in Cambridge have entered with the eagerness for truth shown by the pupils of Abelard., or by Colonel George Lyon, 73-years of age, who has returned as a graduate student to Harvard, intending "to study as long as he lives," there will not be too many men going to college or university; that is, if a sufficient number of Abelards can be found to teach them. --The New York Times...
...singing which preceded the address. Dr. Lovett, who took for his text Kipling's poem "The Pioneer", emphasized the fact that the trouble today is that we have dared to stop thinking in our religious life. "There is no hypocrisy," he said, "greater than that of living in an age of material progress and at the same time existing in a religious stagnation...
...Europeans say we are money-mad. We are accused of measuring success in terms of dollars and cents. "That," Mr. Foss emphatically declared, is poorest measure of success. Success is measured in Service--in what you do for the other fellow. That is the greatest thing possible. In old age it is a wonderful thing to be able to look back on a life of service." He spoke of Russell Sage, who spent all his life making money, and, when he became old and realized the end was near, was at a loss to know what disposition to make...
...have to be provided at frequent intervals. Many people, however, feel that the concours plan makes the passing of examinations the students' primary work. The applicants who fail to pass the examinations may try again, sometimes for four or five years successively until they reach a certain age limit; they may then seek admission in schools of lesser prestige...