Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rihbany was born in Syria of illiterate parents. First he attended a school of his uncle who was a Greek Catholic but he later changed to an English non-secularian institution. From there he transferred to an American missionary school at Belater, leaving it at the age of 9 to become a stone mason...
...later he met a boy who was attending an American boarding school and after several years he attended the American school at Suk-el-Ghork where he had a chance to learn the American customs. This environment awakened a desire to come to America and in 1891 at the age of 22 an opportunity presented itself when he met two friends who were planning to sail...
...translation into Attic Greek of a passage from A. H. Haigh's "The Attic Theatre". The corresponding prize for Latin was won by Leon Medoff '22 of Philadelphia, Pa., with a translation into Latin of a passage from W. W. Fowler's "Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero...
...open only to members of the graduating class take place at 9 o'clock, and are considered the most important of the events of Class Day. In former years the address was regularly given by Professor Herbert Palmer '64 but after 1916 he was obliged, because of his age, to give up the custom. Last year, however, Professor Palmer, because of an emergency, consented to speak at Appleton once more. Since the rule that only Seniors may attend is very strictly enforced, even to the extent of having the organist a Senior, this event is the one of the Class...
...Edison's "questionnaires" for the searching of the minds of his own prospective employees are his own business, and it is to be assumed that experience has taught him wisdom in the means of testing the general intelligence of applicants for positions in his establishment. In this age, "intelligence" frequently means information, and Mr. Edison's latest list of questions, as published, certainly constitutes a good test of general information, and Mr. Edison's latest list of questions, as published, certainly constitutes a good test of general information and keenness of sense. The questions are of course, far from being...