Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKinlock Jr. '16, who was killed in the war; a study of occupations into which Harvard men have gone after graduation; a detailed analysis of the Harvard system of general examinations for graduation and of the tutorial system; and a plea for students to enter college at an earlier age than is now customary, were features of the annual report of President Lowell to the Board of Overseers, made public last night...
...subject of the age of students entering college he said...
...This result is no doubt due in part to the fact that the student who enters young is on the average a brighter, more industrious, more serious boy than one who completes his school days at a later age. But there is also something in taking each part of the educational process at the appropriate time. Many a student enters older than is wise and then strives to go through his college course in three years, thereby substituting a year in school for one in college, although for the development and maturing of his capacity the latter...
...Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece, but to indicate his trade in sheepskins...
...year forever" to "provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest character on literary and scientific subjects". It was an agreement which was not only creditable to the City of Cambridge, but singularly consistent with the thrifty foresight of Mr. Dowse. This foundation, established in the Golden Age of lyceum lectures, at once attracted the most brilliant and notable of speakers. The names of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor...