Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grows Older...
...Daily Eagle have been characterized by fearless honesty and a remarkable freshness of expression. Certain of his critics have intimated that Mr. Weaver was and is the only extant member of the so-called "Younger Generation." This is, perhaps, unjust. Mr. Weaver grows old slowly; but he is growing older...
...third and fourth proposals in the platform deal with the fraternity question. One recommends the establishment of two new fraternities with the aid of the older organizations, and the second states that "the new fraternity buildings necessitated by the university building plans should be open houses, as simple and as inexpensive as is wise, being built with an eye to serviceability and usefulness rather than producing unnecessary extravagance as the result of a race for ornaments...
...will be interesting to watch the operation and the results of the Phillips Brooks House deputations to various Massachusetts towns, which start out this coming week-end. Their object is to awaken the young people to the worth-while things of life, and to help the older people appreciate the problems and difficulties which constantly confront the young ones and which they frequently misunderstand or neglect altogether. And undoubtedly there is a field for such work an almost unlimited field, in which the success of the deputations must depend, like everything else, on the personalities of the deputies...
That a man is no older than he feels has perhaps never been better exemplified than by President Eliot. Instead of retiring at sixty into a sommolent old age, he has to this very day kept as intellectually active as any youth--and he has kept so by the catholicity and vigor of his interests. In this he has made himself a great name--our foremost example of the American Citizen. And President Eliot is to receive such signal recognition on March 20. He deserves all praises and honor not only from Harvard men but from the whole country...