Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Holcombe has urged the three political clubs at Harvard to unite in telling students how to vote if they are away from home, and to urge all men who are of age to vote. Voting by mail is comparatively easy, and it is simplicity itself for the student to cast a vote if he lives near Boston...
Unless something energetic is done to stimulate interest in voting, the presidential election of 1940 will be decided by the candidates and their families. The candidate who has the most sons and daughters of voting age, if he has been wise enough to scatter them among the several states, will be returned victorious...
...Eliot appeared before a Harvard audience on Sunday as apostle of a new religious order. Though having a strong sense of the descent of the present from the past, he rejects almost all the religious beliefs of the past. Eclectic of the best thought of preceding ages, he faces away from them toward the future, proclaiming the present the happiest age the world has ever known. He comes with no specific answers to the ultimate problems of life. But he comes with the specific recognition that they are unanswerable. He sets truth in a new light by drawing a sharp...
Once upon a time in the early period of the stone age, there were two men who were about to run a race, with a beautiful leopard-skin-clothed girl as prize for the winner, and death,--instant and unwavering,--for the loser. As the language in those days was not quite as it is now, the man to the right was called X; and the man to the left was Y. The race began with Y slightly ahead but with X pounding steadily onward. At the half mile mark, he passed, retained his lead until...
...this age of topsy-turvyism, and free speech, love, art, music ad infinitum, why does not some sedate mathematics teacher, in an effort to prolong youth and a gleaming eye,--write a new Algebra book? In it he should cast aside all the pomps and vanities of the wicked world, the lusts of the flesh--as well as precedent and have Y win the race, make the money, get the largest part of the apple and marry Mrs. X. He (Y) deserves it after all these centuries...