Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accession of these volumes and of other works of the Elizabethan Age included in the White collection fills what has been an outstanding gap on the Widener shelves of English literature. The books of this collection will be of the greatest assistance to advanced students of the English drama, and will strengthen decidedly the position of Widener Library as a leading University library of the world. The British Museum Library, and the Henry E. Huntington Library of Los Angeles house other important collections of Shakespeariana...
...know what the freshman ought to take, and regardless of what he wants to take, and who has sufficient persuasion and logic to induce him to follow the advice. Exactly what is the importance of Renaissance history? Or, the respective merits and advantages of sciences and economics, in an age which stresses both to the exclusion of most others: or, the vital and personal benefits to be derived from a study of Philosophy. These are questions which I have occasionally heard juniors discussing: Yet they should be placed before every freshman, at least in such a way that he sees...
...last week the New York World published what its editors believe to be a recent letter from Mrs. Leeds to the Grand Duke Andrew. Excerpt: "I often played with Anastasia, who was about my own age, and Mme. Tchaikovsky has absolutely astounded me by recalling where we had played, what we had played and other incidents. I do not have the slightest doubt now about her identity, and I am willing to spend all the money I have to prove her claim...
...small village of Elmwood, Ill., there occurred last week a praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
...criticize constructively without straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians, bewailing the money spent on armament while universities were in need...