Word: older
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their academic work. In addition activities without number are beginning to send out their calls for candidates. They offer invaluable opportunities for developing personality and physique and gaining experience in business, journalism, and other lines. At Phillips Brooks House tonight representatives of these various interests, as well as some older men, will speak. It is part of the Freshman's preliminary education to hear them, and learn how to break away from a too "splendid isolation" in the dormitories,--how to do something for his class and College...
...university grounds and buildings in Oxford and Cambridge are being used by the military and hospital authorities; the only students left in residence are cripples, Hindus, Americans, and women; most of the younger dons are at the front or on their way there, and a large proportion of the older ones are serving the cause in one way or another at home. All this has won for the two great English universities a place in the popular affection and esteem such as they have perhaps never occupied before. In France there is precisely the same tale to tell. The tragedy...
...charges are essentially true. The most optimistic would hardly defend the intellectuality of the majority of undergraduates. Some of the causes for this condition, however, are to be found elsewhere than in the student's own depravity. The German student, for example, is usually older than the American and has had greater preparation. Moreover, this is still a new and essentially commercial country, where ideas are not so much in the minds and lives of men out of college as they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest...
...October has just been announced. The trees, which were given by a graduate of the University, are unusually large, being from fifteen to twenty inches in diameter. The eighty-seven red oaks and elms which were planted about the grounds last spring are all in excellent condition and the older trees have been carefully pruned and sprayed...
...June 23.--7.00, meeting and dinner, Algonquin Club, Boston. June 24.--Older classes and dignitaries entertained at Phillips Brooks House...