Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons under 18 years of age may not receive religious instruction, but efforts are consistently made to convert every schoolchild to atheism...
Against this possibility of a secure old age the occupational diseases of the geisha seriously militate. Despite the fact that the girls are examined every two weeks and are sent when necessary to the splendidly equipped Yoshiwara Hospital the toll of rinbyo, baidoku and raibyo is as heavy as in the Occident...
...general subject "Tradition". The remaining seven will come on Wednesday and Friday evenings throughout the present month and into the first week of November. His schedule and subjects are as follows: October 15, "The Molpe," October 20, "Metre"; October 22, "Poetic Diction"; October 27, "Architecture"; October 29, "The Heroic Age"; November 3, "Hamlet and Orestes"; November 5, Conclusion...
...twin steeds of scholarship and teaching with what grace is possible, would be even beter poised with the third steed of university administration added--then his faculty government might appear equally necessary. And last if he could only match that famous line concerning youth's lack of knowledge, and age's lack of strength, he might convince undergraduates at Harvard that they have an active, legislative function in university administration...
...bottom and work up after he has graduated, and that is the only way in which to become a really good business man. In the merchant marine, a man of 24 should be able to hold a responsible position and should not have to begin at that age. This is equally true in any other occupation, so that college really robs a man of four or five of the best years of his life. It is a mistaken idea that education will ever make a fool sensible...