Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...retract one thing which was implied in our editorial of yesterday and that is, that only the younger men in the Faculty are on the side of intercollegiate contests. We did not mean to imply this at all, for we know that there are a considerable number of the older professors who have earnestly stood up for these contests and we honor them...
...Union last year will be the graduate representative. Ringwalt is teaching debating in Columbia this year and is thoroughly posted on all the subjects to be discussed at the conference, and it was felt by the Advisory Committee that he would be a more valuable representative than an older graduate who was out of touch with debating interests...
...afternoon will be devoted to the study of the Bernardston series of Upper Devonian metamorphic rocks, and the contact of the Triassic sandstone, where it rests unconformable on the older rocks. The region is one of the most interesting, geologically, in New England, and we are especially privileged in having the opportunity to go with Professor Emerson as leader of the party, he having devoted many years to the study and geological mapping of the central portion of the state...
There is, however, at Harvard, indifference to some things that older men prize. Nowhere is there a more democratic community. Wealth and lineage unsupported by genuine merit lack the power they possess in the world outside: a man counts for what he is, be he student or instructor; and this very state of things has done away with the old relationship between the two: student and instructor are no longer at war,-they are working together toward a common goal...
...first year at the Law School he was chosen one of the representatives from his class in an annual debating contest and secured first prize. It was the first time an underclassman had succeeded against the older rivals...