Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cryptic title for a volume of comments on teachers, students, buildings, standards, and customs in New England institutions during the eighties. The famous teachers as well as the famous buildings, moreover, are accorded the honour of illustrations, which are quite prolific in the book. The buildings qualify because of age, the men because their names, even to present day ears, ring very familar, though most are gone. The number of these familiar names is a partial justification of the book itself, a reminders that, although then as always a small puddle, New England served as the habitat of many large...
...reaching at least their scholastic confreres with their published opinions. Most are actually content with stopping here, content with fame among those who will study and preserve their works to another generation of students. By the time that this fame has been attained, moreover, long seclusion and advanced age has usually, deadened the empty, and impulsive desire for mere note. The scholar lives happily in the esteem of scholars...
GOETHE says in his old age that all his works were but parts of one great confession. It has been claimed that this was true of every artist and it probably is, though the dramas or Schiller and the Epics of Homer may offer some difficulties to the interpreter, and the works of Shakespeare, seen under this view, have not yet given the last answer to the question, whether Bacon or Shakespeare. There are, however, writers whose life and work proceed hand in hand in such a way that each new work is on its face a distinct confession...
...age of seventeen, Young Sam began to roam...
Lionel de Jersey Harvard was born at Lewisham, England, on June 3, 1893, the son of Mr. Thomas Harvard, a prosperous London business man. At the age of eighteen he was entered for Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where many of his ancestors, including John Harvard, had received their education. In the summer of 1911, however, he was persuaded by a group of Harvard graduates to come to America and enter Harvard. He arrived at the opening of the college term in September and was soon embarked upon the career of an undergraduate. His coming to Cambridge attracted wide attention, and much...