Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth's in town again" to continue an age-old rivalry and with every intention of tearing apart not only eleven Crimson stalwarts, but the goal-posts and all of Metropolitan Boston, as has been their custom in recent years...
...Holcombe's scheme helps Government while hurting other departments, by diverting funds from them. Moreover, if given the two posts he would probably select men of his own age group, "stars" who have already earned academic fame. These he could lure from other universities by the offer of a Harvard professorship...
Appointments of this sort would do little to solve the real problem. What is needed are men of the middle age-group, like the departing assistant professors, men who are prepared to teach and tutor. It is these who are called for, not "Name Professors" interested in graduate work to the virtual exclusion of all else...
Died. Eliza Stone, 97, one of the first woman telegraphers in the U. S., who stuck to her post during the Great Chicago Fire until driven out of her office by flames; of old age; in the Old Ladies Home at Oswego, N. Y., on the 68th anniversary of the fire...
...SILENT DUCHESS-Anne Green-Harper ($2.50). Unusually trustworthy times-&-manners fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire...