Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speculate on the old fellow's probable age and wonder vaguely why the University hasn't pensioned him long since. But he will not concern himself further. Most of us look with questioned approval on University business methods, but we all place implicit trust in the sense of justice of the authorities of a place like Harvard. And so the passing Harvard man will take it for granted that what is, is right, and the old man should be there working as he is day after...
...will not know that that old man is over seventy years of age and that for forty-seven years, winter in and winter out, he has been doing his humble but faithful service to succeeding generations of Harvard men. That in his time he has waited on Lyman Abbott and Albert Bushnell Hart, and many others who years since have become national and even international figures. He will not know that that old colored gentleman has given his entire adult life to the service of Harvard University...
...goes to the winning school. Sixty-one players from 18 schools were entered and the tournament was marred with but few defaults. The number of entries, the largest that has taken part in the tournament for some years, is explained in part by the fact that this year the age limit has been removed. So many of the schools were unable to seud representatives due to the age barrier that the Athletic Association decided to do away with the limit...
...natural modesty. We are not Shakespeares or Chaucers and we dare not take a chance of becoming so by letting our minds go, to seed while Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones devotes all his energies to advertising or electrical engineering. The shout goes up--this is an age of specialization; a man must live. Yet there is a perfectly good answer to these objections. The young Chaucers will take care of themselves, never fear; for the rest of us a consciousness that all specialization and no play makes Jack a dull boy will be necessary. There are those who often...
...College of William and Mary. Virginia, a recent lecturer on representative government compared the present day United States to classical Greece in the age of the decay. He declared that George Washington, alive today, would receive less attention than JackDempsey; that all of us, crazed by novelty and sensation, are undervaluing the things worth while in overestimating non-essentials...