Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests quite the contrary. For some time the freshman halls have served as a method of establishing contacts between members of the same class. Yet even these have suffered during the middle age darkness of sophomore and junior years when the class has scattered to cover until the rendez-vous in the Yard. The plan for a division of upperclassmen into college groups would destroy to a great degree this unhappy circumstance. But even more important than this, it would establish contacts between...
...Thus M. Briand was placed in a slightly better position for conciliating the potent enemies of Malvy on the Right, who want him out of the Cabinet at all costs. His equally important friends on the Left found themselves in a position to let him slip out under the age-old cloak of diplomats, "illness...
...very heart of the Breton peninsula and of parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry and fishermen, warming their hearts...
...time Professor Pitkin has been asking people of all grades of intelligence to recite the Ten Commandments, not necessarily exactly, but at least in substance. The first group he queried-and the idea of questioning arose by accident from discussion-included eleven persons between 35 and 60 years of age, all in professions except a Sunday school teacher. None knew all ten. Their average was 5.72. Next he tested 48 people-14 college professors, 18 newspaper men and women of high rank, 10 literary men and women and 6 prominent business men. Most were college graduates and all between...
Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...