Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That she was "a virtuous and innocent girl about two months past the age of 16 years" when he "seduced her under promise of marriage...
...Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from...
Lying in the cradle at the age of six months, shot-putting is practiced vigorously with managers in the form of nurse-maids judiciously returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised...
...demonstrated by the fact that boys finishing a four year course there are credited with three years in other high schools. Most of the graduates become mechanics or draughtsmen. Though the pupils are thus taught to earn their own living by their hands, specialization at such an early age seems highly dangerous. The ideal of a general education is admittedly a secondary consideration. The institution is little more than a training school for the Ford factory. That children should be taught a certain amount of manual training is a very good thing as there are few better ways to teach...
...Indianapolis. He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus. His position in national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed by the heady elixir of "modernism," belong certainly to the present and may be depended...