Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates at both colleges are supported by the younger graduates and the most respected members of the faculty. The alumni who have been longer away from college, along with the majority of trustees, seem to be joined in opposition. The issue in each case is liberalism, and the older men are the reactionaries. There is nothing novel in this alignment, but it is a lesson for the trustees. If progress is to be made, men like Meiklejohn must be encouraged, and men like the reputed Atwood must be condemned. For once the undergraduate view appears to be the right view...
...matter of fact, nothing is more necessary to keep the League alive than youthful optimism. Its advocates may point out its past successes, it present organization, and its future possibilities with brilliance and vigor, but in general conservative age fails to be impressed. The older man relies largely on precedent and experience. The young man, with no experience to rely on, and small knowledge of precedent, is more willing to try anything once. Certainly the European nations have belied the imputation of age by their eagerness to try something which has the charm of novelty; America has shown the world...
...letters as any other man of whom I can at this moment think. Sport writer, feature writer, dramatic critic, columnist, essayist, novelist?he does all of these things, if not artistically, certainly successfully. His column in The New York World is followed avidly. His first novel, The Boy Grew Older, was received with some critical praise. One book of essays from the pen achieved a healthy sale. In my opinion, he is great only as a journalist; but as a journalist he is indubitably great...
...encourage participation in organized athletics, and to make men take part in games which are enjoyable and can be played in after life. This is a wise policy; the college performs a useful service if it develops in men a liking for games they can play as they grow older, and for outdoor activity generally. Except for the comparatively small number of men who need some special sort of physical building up, none of the wearisome gymnasium exercise with chest weights and other apparatus which naturally come to mind with the phrase "compulsory exercise" are required...
...shells answered with an identical increase in speed. Thayer, setting the pace for the Unions, now made a final effort to break the dead-lock. The stroke in the graduate shell was already in the neighborhood of 34, but it was raised to 36 and inch by inch the older men drew ahead...