Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate of today must needs rely on his elders for the personal praises and eulogies which are Professor Norton's due. It is to the older men, the men who were so fortunate as to be either his younger colleagues or his students that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker...
Dean Briggs, when asked to characterize Professor Norton as he knew him described the founder of the Fine Arts department as an older man whose attitude towards young men placed them at ease, and whose enthusiastic love of art and literature made his lectures vital instead of dry or academic...
...their central headquarters in a building which the government has set aside for the organization, the students direct about 20,000 people throughout the country in a movement for prohibition, and publish two dry newspapers. In this work, the young people take the lead, and gradually draw in the older...
...ward has the smell of soiled bandages, disinfectants and decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
They were at Albany for the third Anglo-Catholic Congress.* This is the U. S. organization of Episcopalians who wish their church to approximate the older doctrines and rituals which still guide the Roman Catholic Church, but without subordination to the papal system. Their wishes have caused great controversy within their church. But few, even among Episcopalians, understand the matter...