Word: older
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clubs they do not furnish the required field, for by their very nature they are limited in numbers and restricted by elections. Hence the need to you of this house for meeting each other, for meeting your teachers, who would gladly see you more freely, and for meeting the older graduates, who ask for the sunshine of your young, fresh years. One common meeting-ground we already have...
...older men can hardly enter the cloister of Memorial Hall without a quickening of the pulses and a moistening of the eyes, without a feeling of sadness at the loss of our comrades, and of gladness that they never hesitated in their course...
...older men would offer to you a garden in which such saplings will grow until they become the oaks to whose shade you may always return for cheer and for rest in your victories and your troubles. Be sure that you will have both, for the one you will win and the other you must surely meet; and when they come, nothing will steady and strengthen you like real friends who will speak the frank words of truth tempered by affection; friends who will help you and never count the cost...
...Harvard men at all times of public stress since the college was established; and that this commemoration would come most appropriately from the present students. The Memorial Society believes that the nobility of these men has still its message to speak to us as it spoke to our older brothers in '98. and that we can hear it most clearly perhaps from the lips of one that is still young with...
...concluding his lecture, M. Deschamps outlined the general position of contemporary French writers on the question of marriage. These writers, as a class, remain faithful to the doctrines of authors of the older schools, they have steadfastly opposed the introduction of mercenary considerations into the question of marriage, and have championed the principle that the union of man and woman should be dictated and guided by love alone...