Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax is reached in the account of an officer in the British Royal Flying Corps, who was figured as an Egyptian because he was born in Egypt while his English parents were staying there. He had left Egypt at the age of five, never to see it again. His protest sums up the whole situation: "If I had been born in a stable," he asked, "would I be a horse...
...chief characters, and the score calls for a huge orchestra of some hundred men and such unusual instruments as lyres and flutes of Pan. However, the third act as presented in concert form, only serves to prove the Rimsky-Korsakow is one of the greatest orchestrators of the age...
...more organization. Suppose the undergraduate committee in charge of selecting advisors were appointed in April by the Student Council. They could then make up a list of Seniors or Juniors whom they considered suitable. Of each man selected they would make a record on which they would indicate his age, his interests and the type of man whom he could advise. Furthermore they could select more men than would be required. Equipped with such records the College Office, with some degree of accuracy, could, during the summer allot Freshmen to these advisors, omitting those of the latter...
Secondly, even were the Circle so informed, it doubts if such a change, contrary to the age -old tradition...
...goes to work in a factory or in an office. The idea that in coming to college a boy is postponing his life-work for four years while he floats down the stream of time untroubled by the hard realities that other young men of his own age have to face is not at all our idea of what a college means. Neither is a college a kind of intellectual incubator where young fledglings are hatched out with no effort of their own. A college is a workshop, and if it is going to maintain its place in the esteem...