Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost equal in weight, the average weight of the entire Blue squad is six pounds more than that of the Crimson squad, the weights being 182 to 176. The average height of the University team is one-sixth of an inch more than the Yale team and the average age is four months more than that of the Elis, the figures being 5 feet 11 2-3 inches to 5 feet 11 1-2 inches, and 21 years 4 months to 21 years. HARVARD UNIVERSITY SQUAD Name, class and position, Age. Weight. Height Preparatory School. C. C. Macomber '22, left...
...Armament Conference which opens in Washington today is a prominent phase of a great metamorphosis through which the world is passing. At no other time within the memory of man has the whole earth so nearly approached the status of a single unified community. Any comparisons, therefore, with past ages are fruitless; any judgments on the theory that "history repeats itself" are out of date; and any prophecy as to the future on the basis of what has gone before is entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe...
...words of the President in Washington are heard as he speaks, them in every part of the continent. The most recent stop towards coherency is the proposed plan to furnish light and power to eleven states from a single plant. It is obvious, then, that history in this age of world unity must differ from that of ages past. Those who claim that the Armament Conference will be just another convention of scheming diplomats are as mistaken as those who believe that the Russian upheaval is a glorious repetition of the French Revolution. We can expect more and better results...
...nature is very unpleasantly felt. New England, New York, and even Washington (D, C.) students may remain at home until late on January second. Southerners and many Westerners, on the contrary, must leave for college before New Year's or at best, early New Year's morning. Two years age the recess was extended to include January fourth, to the gratification of the entire student body, but especially of Westerners and Southernerss. I cannot be brought to believe that those two additional days wrought any harm at all to the conducting of courses, or injured in the least the treasured...
...reading authors who have reached a perilous stage in this habit, may be allowed to register here his mild protest, and to express the hope that writers at Harvard, if only for the sake of a change, may turn their attention to imitating the clarity of the Victorian age or even of the eighteenth century...