Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speed, but were amply protected. The line, with the exception of the ends, will play in regular football uniforms, so that the team will be in two parts, those in the familiar heavy fogs, and another group in a new abbreviated regalia, more like rugby than American football equip age...
...course. "America", stated Professor Taussig, "is unique in the long duration of schooling precedent to a professional career. With four years in college, two to four years in a graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting a career is 30. In many universities all over the country there is a tendency to shorten the undergraduate course. By making the Freshman year less dull and less elemental it should be possible to educate a man in three years. German A and other elementary subjects should...
...degree in Harvard College may be found in the proverbial assumption that the old order changeth. That the ultimate goal in many cases has been transposed from an A.B. or S.B. to a degree in one of the graduate schools is an undoubted fact. This is an age of specialization, as one is so often reminded, and specialization requires advanced and particularized training...
...might take exception to the language. In spots it is rough and, it seems to me, out of place on the printed page. Perhaps it is characteristic of our age, but not more so than of most ages. Somehow it is reminiscent of "Flaming Youth" or "The Plastic Age," literature acceptable to adolescent prep-school minds but hardly of lasting importance...
...Every age has its mythology, and the nearest approach to the genuine in modern times is in thumb-nail accounts such as this. As ancient myths grew in the telling, so do their modern counterparts, and such phrases as "We" gather about themselves a wealth of imaginative color. But also, as the ancient myths came to be liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily...