Word: aging
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Newton '12, stroke. Age 22; height 6 ft.; weight 183 pounds...
...order to vote at the election on Tuesday a man must be twenty-one years of age, have lived in Massachusetts for one year, and have resided in Cambridge for six months...
...Historic Operatic Concerts and the support which they have received from graduates of the University. The opera is not a light amusement but an educational force; it is a composite art and appeals to the higher qualities of the listener. In spite of the commercial spirit of this age, the opera will have a vital growth in the future, and it is only commercial power which can provide operatic productions...
...lecture dealt with the period in Athenian history from Aristophanes to Menander and sketched the literary transition from the fifth to the fourth centuries. As opposed to the Periclean age when man was the pre-eminent personage in Athenian life, woman now begins to occupy the place of prominence. Though the empire was destroyed, Athens still continued to be the capital of the literary life of the age. In her decadence Athens produced more than any other city in its prime. The age was essentially one of prose, reaching the zenith of its development in Plato. Menander produced remarkable comedies...
...accustomed to typify the present stage of invention as the "age of steel"; yet is it not rather the age of mental activity, of successful application of the laws of nature to the needs...