Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor union was one of the first and most important agencies to support laws to prevent the abuses of woman and child labor. In addition the union started a campaign for better public schools, advocating that education until a certain age be compulsory, that text books be supplied free and that extension facilities such as night schools be introduced. Ever since then the trade union has carried on an active campaign to secure better education facilities...
...typical railroad officer of the old school came up through the ranks. Usually he began work at an early age, and his general education was limited. His specialized education was obtained in the hard school of practical experience. He has been inclined to regard years of practical experience as the only effective training for positions of responsibility. Holding that viewpoint, he has minimized the value of a broad education, and has looked upon the college graduate as a theorist. Facing this critical attitude the college man has been handicapped. His progress has been hard won. As he has compared notes...
More particularly with respect to the Harvard Law School, the equipment and courses at the school are fully described in the annual catalogue. In order to receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws the student must have attained the age of twenty-one years, have put in three years of residence at the school and successfully passed the examinations on the entire course of three years. There are a number of scholarship and loan funds from which assistance is furnished to deserving students. While the school draws more students from Harvard College than from any other institution, the percentage does...
Unlike Penrod, William Sylvanus Baxter, or Ramsay Milholland, the main character of the story, has passed the more difficult period of youth and has reached the age where real romance may be his. Clarence is a discharged soldier hero, who in the course of four amusing acts falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet...
...that age of new geography and England's adventures taking practical possession of the globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters what was the most marvellous realm of its kind, the Fairy World. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $3.75. Special price...