Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranging in age from 19 to 28, the guides form a seemingly intellectual body. Most of them carried on graduate work during the summer. Two will receive Ph.D's in Fine Arts this year; another joins the faculty this fall. One has been appointed instructor in econofies, and another will travel to Cuba after the celebration to take up a teaching position...
Mathematically, however, the calculations are faulty; quality is unimpreachable, but quantity has been skimped. Taking the average age of customers as 40 years, two minutes seems the minimum time allowance necessary. The Governing Boards have only prepared for relays of sixteen. Simple calculation shows that after 24 hours, 500 guests of one classification or another, all of them impatient, will still be in line. This bids fair to delay the next event on the program...
SEPTEMBER 8th, 1836--Early up with a heart full of joy to help my college celebrate her two hundredth birthday party. Enech in with some journals come by post from New York, calls it no great thing judging by the age of the English colleges, our sisters. But a piece of good fortune, I count it to be the first upon this wild continent...
Dented and blackened with age, a few tiny pieces of silver are evidence that as far back as the middle 1600's there were counterfeiters abroad in the land providing just one more obstacle for the struggling colonists to overcome. Genuine coins which are to be seen include three of the "pine tree" variety and four "oak tree." There was a third type minted, a "willow tree" design, but there are none of this pattern in the Robinson display...
...Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...