Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University are asking if they can vote in Cambridge this November. Mr. J. Frank Facey, chairman of the Registrars of Voters in the City of Cambridge, yesterday explained the necessary qualifications to a CRIMSON reporter. Briefly they are that a man to be eligible must be 21 years of age, must have had his name placed on the Police List before October 2, 1920, and must have been a resident of the city on the first day of April...
...age that is past...
...age that is waiting before...
...knows what he wants and how he means to get it is very apt to succeed; and this is not more true of material aims than of higher ones. The object of true religion in every age and every clime has been to search out those things that are of eternal value. Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding...
...author only writes of those failures who have at first been successes--no humble persons find a place in his volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than seventeen pages is, to say the least, impracticable. Imagine Thackery giving as little space to Becky Sharp's life (Mr. Ellis, by the way, would have considered Becky Sharp a failure...