Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reiterated times without number, its complete detachment in regard to the debate of the Fundamentalists and Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than between geometry and philosophy. There are, of course, unscientific scientists and priests who take "flyers" outside their province; but that...
...outstanding weakness of the present age in dealing with the political problem", according to Professor Babbitt, "is its lack of historical perspective. Few moderns are able to judge the present in the light of the past, and what we most need at this juncture in our national affairs is the power to appraise the demagoguery of the present in the light of the political past." To quote a sentence from Professor Babbitt's latest book, La Follette is a good example of "the progressive who has repudiated the past, barely tolerates the present, and is at home imaginatively only...
...George Fechtner of the Machinists' Union of New England, a leader in the recent strike at Waltham, addressed the La Follette-Wheeler club last night in the Faculty Room of the Union, and declared that the present progressive political movement is a manifestation of an age-old struggle of the common people to secure better and larger lives for themselves...
...been little effort made by any of these organizations to call to the attention of all students who were eligible to vote at the coming election the rules governing absent voters. If a united movement were undertaken to point this out, to encourage all men who have become of age, to avail themselves of the opportunity to vote, the clubs would be accomplishing a great service. It also seems to me that a straw vote would be a good measure to stimulate interest, to secure a wider participation in political affairs. When I was at college the fashion used...
Invitations have been extended to 24 colleges, and it is expected that all will be represented by at least one person. The meeting has been called for the purpose of arousing interest in the coming Presidential election in the college and the encouraging of all those of age to use their vote...