Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important group are the 15,000,000 women who soon will have the ballot and who need and want instruction in national issues before they will be able to properly use the ballot. Into another group Mr. Claxton put the 2.500,000 young men and women who become of age each year and of whom but a small proportion are privileged to go through high school...
...after all, the world looks upon a college graduate as a man who should have certain superior qualifications, aside from a knowledge of his specialty, notwithstanding this is the "specialists' age." And the elective system, with the abolition of compulsory Greek and Latin, neglected certain general phases of training without which going to college fails to be the same as getting an education...
Prof. Clarence R. Skinner of Tufts will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Menorah Society which is to be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tonight. His subject will be "The New Task for the New Age...
...system of European diplomacy. The secret treaties are not to be regarded as interesting historical curiosities. They are of importance today, and they can teach us much about the future. For, in spite of promises of "open covenants openly arrived at," we have not been suddenly issued into an age of good-fellowship among nations. The compromises which President Wilson was forced to make at Paris furnish abundant evidence that European methods of diplomacy are still a force with which we must contend...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...