Word: age
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Books are the greatest and truest friends man can have. In his youth they delight him, in middle age they offer seclusion from the world, and when he is old--they remain after other friends have gone. He who has the power of reading for pleasure is fortified against the vicissitudes of life...
President Eliot was born in Boston on March 20, 1834. After receiving his early education at the Boston Latin School, he entered the University at the age of sixteen years. He received his A.B. in 1853 and his A.M. in 1857. After his graduation he served as an assistant professor of chemistry for several years. In 1869 he became President of Harvard University, holding this position until he resigned in 1909. Since that time he has devoted himself chiefly to letters, his articles on political subjects, written for the daily papers, particularly the New York Times, have been widely read...
...sorrow and bitterness. Scientists, on the other hand, tell us that a man can only live long, if he "vegetates" in a quiet sheltered community. Occasionally, however, we find an individual, who refutes both doctrines, by leading a vigorous life and continuing his activity during a hale old age, to his own satisfaction, and to the benefit of the community...
...world is full of efforts towards industrial legislation which have failed and which have failed for reasons easily discoverable. There has come into the age a demand for a remedy for industrial strife a remedy which will place the subject under the proper regulation of government. A very instructive course in industrial relations could be created at Harvard which would given the University a vital leadership as the established of the remedy...
When our fathers and grandfathers were our age there was no indefiniteness in their minds as to whether they wanted to belong to one party or the other--they belonged--and, belonging, they felt that what the party did was of vital importance to them and that they took a part in its doings. They knew what was what politically...