Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early age, Fritz went to a public school in Heidelberg and received there a modest education which he supplemented by voluntary attendance in some of the University's lecture rooms that were open to the general public. At the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and, while thus employed in learning a trade, joined an organization of youths known as the Young Socialists. This was perhaps the first step of any importance in his life...
...Here we have an American college sport that as yet has no counterpart in the professional world. It is played between teams of young men of similar age and type. Its science is the cumulative experience of years of experiments. It can be coached by its own players or recently graduated players, as we found out at Yale years ago, just as well as by resident specialists if the continuity of its technique is preserved...
...Possibly it does, but perhaps it rather relieves his mind of confusion and illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...shown on the examinations a clearly satisfactory knowledge. That I may not seem prejudiced because of my connection with a school which prepares many boys for examination at that time, let me say that the summer session at Exeter was under with for the same reason that I should age in support of the September examinations, namely as a contribution to the problem of wastage in American education...
...Child of the Age, disciple of the ancient Omar, sings a bacchanalian ditty, one of those flower-that-once has-blown-for-ever-dies songs...