Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Johnson, and McCain, and Secretary Baker, but also by the attitude of the Government towards the men who completed the course. In spite of the fact that the general rule for the examining boards of the Second Officers' Training Camps was to accept no men under 31 years of age, a special order from the Adjutant General to these boards required that serious consideration be given to all R. O. T. C. applicants for admission; the result was that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older than 20 years and nine months were...
Alexander Meiklejohn was born in England and came to America at eight years of age. He received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Brown in 1893 and 1895, respectively, and in 1897 was awarded a Ph.D. by Cornell. He became an instructor in philosophy at Brown in 1897, an assistant professor in 1899, an associate professor in 1903, and dean from 1901 to 1912, when he left to take the chair at Amherst...
...custom of staid old age, when wearied with a continuous state of staidness, to cast aside its robes of wisdom and revel in the joyous disregard of youth. Ordinarily such unexpected return to the age of folly is diagnosed as second childhood, but when indulged in by Seniors, those omniscient swayers of destiny, it is called the Senior Spread...
...will be open to all college men and to those who, though not graduates of universities or colleges, still can fulfill the educational requirements. The reading of the Government's ruling is as follows: "The candidate must have had a three-years' college education or its equivalent," but the age limit has been lowered to include all men between the ages...
...orderliness is all enveloping, have spent a great deal of time, much more worry, and a modicum of intelligence on the problem of what to call the present war. Quite irrespective of the fact that war is fought as a vital mode of justice to preserve the living age, rather than as a spectacle to be duly nominated and recorded in history, the more important fact remains that wars are not named by those who fight them...