Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrative history of the College from its beginning to the present day, and will be written by Professor Morison. The third volume will be composed of monographs on the history of the different departments and graduate schools during the last 50 years, and will be written by the older members of the Faculty...
University Hall, designed by Bulfinch., is another building that a vagabond could study to good profit, while Massachusetts, and all the older dormitories are examples of simple, severe Colonial architecture...
...lads amuse themselves throwing rocks, shooting craps, fighting gang against gang with clubs, stones, bottles, telling jokes, holding a section of street against invasion by a rival gang, stealing, cop-baiting, hanging around poolrooms, attending cheap cinema shows, begging pennies, playing poker, drinking liquor, accepting the solicitations of older uptown girls...
...Nestor of funnymen, older than sly Art Young or odd Tom Powers, is Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, active at 65 as president of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Born Swiss, he early removed to Horseheads, N. Y., where now the store, hotel, firehouse and railway station are as thickly hung with his sketches as Florence is with busts of Dante...
Uncommercially, the older universities have nothing to fear from Duke. That on the contrary Duke may be counted on to side against retrogressive forces in the South's so-called Bible Belt, was seen last week in an action of its president. Dr. William Preston Few, president of Trinity College (1910-24) and of Duke University since Trinity married a fortune, arose before the education association of the southern wing of the Methodist Episcopal† Church, and obtained almost unanimous support for a resolution: "We . . . here put ourselves on record as opposed to all legislation that would interfere with...