Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older universities have the youngest one to reckon with. Besides the largest endowment,* Duke University (Durham, N. C.), has an enviable climate and the true quiet of academe. A combination of these assets has already enabled Duke to take from Harvard that pre-eminent psychologist, Dr. William McDougall. Dr. McDougall said he had been happy at Harvard but could not resist Duke's offer. Many another famed professor is happy where he is, but boards of trustees are watching nervously to see who next will be unable to resist the prospect of Ducal paradise...
...from rich men, who are more than glad to get 5% certain earnings on their investments. With this cheap construction money he puts up apartments that rent, on the average, for $2.53 a room a week. In the latest buildings each apartment has electric lights and private bath. In older constructions, lacking these conveniences, the average rent is $1.99 a room a week. The tenants pay their rent promptly. One year, when total rentals were $826,483, only $18 remained unpaid. During the generation that the City & Suburban Homes Co. has functioned, unpaid rents have averaged $30 a year...
...Part of my family consists of four growing girls, ranging from 8 to 13 years of age. They read the Graphic every day. They pick out what they like. The older ones undoubtedly glanced at the Browning case...
...colleges and which was tried out last year at Yale. The whole tendency of these new regulations, appears to be towards a more up-to-date method of ascertaining whether a boy is able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work...
...situation is very different in Oxford and the older Cambridge. British college men feel that are themselves or by proxy of some friend or relative the future governors of some part of a world fagging empire. The possibility that many of them will after graduation go out to the colonies or into the Government at home makes their Debating Unions of great importance. But over here who cares? Those who are thinking of going into politics never talk about it; because of certain happenings of the past few years it is almost as if one should announce his intention...