Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel of the perfect servant. The Admirable Crichton, lately immortalized by the movies: The Life and Letters of John Keats edited by Lord Boughton: The Brothers Karamazov (2 vols.) Thedor Dostoevsky, generally conceded a place as one of the greatest works of the age: The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan...
Among the gifts of Dr. Denman W. Ross '75 are several very finely sculptured heads. An especially interesting one is an Indian head of about the eighth century, in exceptionally fine condition considering its age. Dr. Ross also made a present of several very delicately colored Chinese and Persian brocades of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
...corresponding elevation in this country, it is interesting to learn that Great Britain's educators are by no means satisfied with the state of affairs in their secondary schools. It is charged that the cardinal vice there is the consistant cramming of students of 11 and 12 years of age in order that they may make the transition, from primary to secondary institutions, the latter being the place in which they begin to prepare for their higher education. Consequently a movement against cramming is under way in both England and Wales, as is indicated in a London protest...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...Rogers' conclusion: "The Black Nun* might have been a mystery in those days but in this hardboiled age we are inclined to be a bit more sceptical...