Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...David Williams Cheever '52, M.D. '58, LL.D. '94, Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, died at his home in Boston on December 27, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Funeral services were held at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, on Wednesday, December 29, at 12.30 o'clock...
Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman '96 of the history department will speak in the Boston Public Library tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on "The Age of Elizabeth." This lecture is one of a series of free public lectures given on Sunday afternoons in the Boston Public Library...
...result of my few terms at Hebron Academy was that I entered Harvard College in 1853, at fourteen years of age. . . . I look back upon my college education with less satisfaction than any other part of my life. I was not thoroughly fitted. I was too young. The mistake was made, with a well-meant but mistaken view of saving me from the 'dangers of college life,' of boarding me for the first two or three years a mile away from the college--as if there were any dangers or, if there were, as if the best part...
This is as it should be. It has long been so in England. The salvation of our country must be worked out by men with training and a broader view. On the other hand, in this age of democracy no man can become truly, educated who has not at least a live interest in political issues. Every man, and, a-fortiori, every college man, should be at least an amateur politician...
...engaging in an aggressive war because we are too isolated and all we desire is to be left alone. Surely if we need a police force to protect us from internal trouble, we need one proportionately large to protect us from foreign aggression. If we ever arrive at the age of a compulsory international peace tribunal or Supreme Court of the nations we must have a force sufficient to help guarantee support to the enforcement of its decrees. Educated minds are needed to aid in these movements. We need them to give expert thought to the protection of the industries...