Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish mental, ethical and religious equipment is of a simple rugged type which takes its set so rapidly that a Jewish boy is considered "of age" at 13. The more delicate and fragile European type seldom takes a mature set before the age of 24. This means eleven years' advantage in hardness and maturity on the side of a Jewish boy whose competitor is a European type...
...simplified Jew rapidly adapts himself to any age, mimicking that type which his intelligence tells him is able to secure the greatest gain with the least wasted effort. The Jew has developed from the medieval usurer into the modern capitalist and the advanced communist dictator...
...exact worth of being able to do, especially when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement...
...reasons offered by Princeton authorities for their ban on student-driven and owned automobiles, one is paradoxical and the other open to question. The fact that there has been a "frequency of fatal accidents" in Princeton is not common to that town alone. The law, by establishing an age limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years...
...Fine Arts 3b on "Roman Temples". Augustus found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and much of his building activity was devoted to carving shrines to the gods. Contrasted with the pure spirituality of the Greek temples, the religious structures seem the product of a more decadent age, but nevertheless, they offer to the eye and mind of a sympathetic student a subject worthy of some little attention...