Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shall we return to the time-worn controversy regarding over-emphasis of football in the American college? God for bid that we should ever be allowed to forget it. The Herald notes with a great deal if interest that the University of Miami, age one year, whose Freshman class of 200 attends classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development concern, seeks to obtain a fund of $500,000 to build up a football stadium...
...striking change in age-old tradition, though an omission, is noticeable with all the force of a startling addition. The usual editorial entitled "The 19--Red Book" is missing. But the words must be recorded, even though modesty prevails among the present editors. They have again, as in the past, pursued with energy and admirable initiative the task of recording faithfully the occurences and the spirit of their class Sophomores could do no more...
...experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions in the minds of such as have at the outset little chance of finding value in higher education, but it is a question whether, even if awakened, the suspicions would be taken seriously. Only a few of pre-college age, or older for that matter, are able to speak freely and with assurity about their tastes and latent possibilities, where even an observer passing judgement cannot be too sure of "latent possibilities...
...AMERICA COMES OF AGE - by Andre Siegfried - Harcourt Brace...
...age when people have most things fairly well analyzed and the rest fairly well conjectured, no one dares deny the almost divine whimsicality which now sends men voyaging through the fogs of the Atlantic in tiny planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he would see in this what he saw in the passsage of the Narcissus. It smacks of the hardboiled days of the Spanish Main; it has no touch of the mauve decade. And thus, if for no other reason, is it worth while...