Word: older
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yard and one-mile runs as no one qualified for the former and the entries in the latter were scratched. It was decided to enter H. Jaques, Jr., '11 in the two-mile run and for a time it looked as if he might win it. He had two older and more experienced runners against him, however, and although he ran by far the fastest race of his life, he was out-classed and only secured third. Captain W. M. Rand '09 scored in both hurdle races, winning 3 points. He defeated Talcott of Cornell for third place...
...dwelt principally on the fact that wealthy Americans too often spend their money in importing old paintings, often imitations, while they ought rather to encourage their own artists and the splendid enthusiasm with which young Americans are inspired. In Germany too much stress is laid on the value of older men, but in America the optimistic belief prevails that to competent youth should go positions of trust and honor...
...Bedford Club was about the first to see the possibilities of this idea, and many others have taken it up. Two Seniors are on the list of speakers at the dinner of the club at Newark, New Jersey, tonight. Undergraduates are always glad of the opportunity of meeting the older Harvard men, and graduates enjoy hearing about affairs in Cambridge from an undergraduate standpoint. There is no reason why the custom, once started should not be continued indefinitely...
...first spoke of his experiences among the old chiefs of the Sioux tribe and gave little sketches of the effect the great cities had on certain older Indians who visited Chicago, Pittsburg and Washington. They could not understand civilization, but all possessed a certain dignity of manner that charmed all they...
Professor E. C. Moore, Parkman professor of theology and chairman of the board of preachers to the University, will leave this afternoon for the Middle West, where he will visit several of the older colleges and universities in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Professor Moore planned this trip at the request of the Alumni Association and with the purpose of making addresses and studying educational methods at the institutions which he will visit. He is familiar with a number of these colleges having been graduated from Marietta College...