Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Lewis Douglas, born at Plymouth, beside the Rock, in 1845, lost his father at sea when he was only five. At seven he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. You can see him, "W. L. Douglas Pegging Shoes at Seven Years of Age," between "$7.00 French Brogue for Men" and the "$5.00 Advance Fall Style for Women" in almost any newspaper...
...presidents. Deans and presidents brought forth sheaves of notes and speeches, expounded aims and ideals in terms occasionally selected with an eye to arresting the world's attention as well as shedding light and inspiration upon undergraduate audiences. At Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth College, now 154 years of age, opened with the announcement that compulsory chapel attendance was a thing of the past; with the annual sophomore-freshman football rush; with words from President Ernest M. Hopkins: "I would seriously submit for undergraduate consideration the question whether, from the point of view of their own ultimate good, there...
...temporary treasurer feels fully justified in expecting at least 200 men at the first meeting from those students who give serious consideration to the political situation. Appeal will be made to all liberal men at Harvard whether of age...
NamePosition Age Weight Height J. W. Adie '26, center 20 176 6.00 C. E. Baldwin '26, end 19 172 6.00 E. M. Beals '25, end 21 175 6.01 E. H. Bradford '26, end 20 173 6.00 C. H. Bradford '26, guard 20 186 6.01 George Braden '25, end 24 165 5.07 C. E. Bohlen '27, tackle 20 175 6.01 R. W. Chase '25, end 20 175 6.01 M. A. Cheek '26, back 21 175 5.10 C. D. Coady '27, end 21 195 6.01 L. F. Daley '27, line 22 190 6.00 E. S. Daniell '26, guard...
...Atlantic Monthly for September. Ferguson is an undergraduate "leader," the college "man of the hour." The portrait is not without truth but is perhaps too surely executed. The contributor called himself " '90" and erred, admittedly, on the side of optimism and generosity where others of his age had erred in pessimism and bitterness. Still, Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull observer, but in the main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship...