Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious twist to the usual older-younger generation quarrel reveals itself here. The present upper-classmen apparently form the party of the right in the controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic...
...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
...whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went without saying in the '90's, until Playwright Henry Arthur Jones said several things about it defending Mrs. Dane. Reviews of the play were of two opinions. Older theatregoers remembered the sex dialectics of their youth. Young ones were mystified by a creed of elaborate duplicity. The play was an ambiguous first choice by the new company...
...confined to the teaching of it alone. They should be allowed to direct advanced literature courses of their own in order to keep them fresh and to give them the hope of advancement. To make this possible, and to prevent interference with courses that have long been given by older members of the Department, it would do no harm to institute a few new courses designed especially for undergraduates. More courses would mean less of the baneful crowding in those already in existence and greater opportunity for individual student as well as for young teacher...
...older statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which still govern the University, a reference is made to the "republic of letters," with the interests of which the University is identified, and it is into Harvard's part of the "republic of letters" that you are welcomed first of all. I hope you will find in it an inspiring home. None of us would care to attempt a definition of citizenship in such a republic. Certainly all of those who would claim it do not merit such distinction. Fortunately, it is a republic without either boundaries or territory and its immigrants...