Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the government govern and the people be free...
...show the extent of the danger. There are often fisted columns of names, as though after a serious accident, of those subjected to such addresses. The number alone is impressive; but when one considers that each, through kindness or a sense of duty, exposed a mind ordinarily at that age plastic and at that time unusually impressionable the possibilities are alarming...
...other hand the salaries are larger in these, ranging from $5000 to $7000 or $7500 for professorships, with varying degrees of approach to these figures for the intermediate grades of assistant and associate professorships. Rarely does a man secure a professorship in such larger institutions before the age of forty. In smaller institutions advance is likely to be earlier, but salaries are lower--counterbalanced, however, by lower cost of living...
...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...
...Baker is not a college graduate himself but his son, George Fisher Baker Jr. '99, will celebrate his twenty-fifth anniversary at the Harvard commencement this month. Mr. Baker, senior, was born in Troy, New York, in 1840 and at a young age rapidly rose to a place of prominence in the New York financial world, soon becoming president of the First National Bank, a position now held by his son. He also has been a director of over a dozen of the country's leading railroads. He has been a patron of the fine arts and in 1916 presented...