Word: older
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...usually the older generation which holds firm in well-grooved paths the car of progress; it is the younger men who supply much of the energy and who usually point out the new directions in which progress may move. With proper flexibility and sane guidance both perform a highly valuable function in civilization. But when conservatism becomes reactionary, and when radicalism becomes flighty, the car is in danger of losing its balance...
...salaries paid to professors to enable the institution to retain prominent members of the faculty who otherwise might go to other universities met with a favorable reception by directors of the association at their quarterly meeting in Philadelphia. Cornell is not so heavily endowed as some of the older universities, it was said, and it was recognized that unless the alumni were willing to assist it would be impossible to keep some of the most valuable professors much longer...
Yale took a step in the right direction when she called to New Haven the older and more conservative coaches. The sensational policy has been relegated to the emergency list, and out of the chaos of a disastrous early season there has arisen an eleven which is strong as a unit and experienced individually. For the early-season showing of Captain Wilson and his phenomenal material it is unfortunate that the step was not taken sooner. Today's game, the final test, will decide whether or not the step was taken too late. Whatever the result, it is certain that...
...preparatory school student is only human, and when he finds older men, men, it may be, who have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard...
When a student passes from the sheltering portals of a preparatory school to the freer life of a university he is thrown for the first time on his own responsibility. At school his every action is prescribed and regulated by older men and he is carefully shielded from the temptations of the outer world. At college, however, he must choose for himself when to study and when to play, and he must work out his own problems of discipline and conduct...