Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result is that all he has to do is remember it. The proper relationship is that of master and apprentice, and the first duty of a teacher is to be a student, and then the teacher relationship comes when the young mind comes into contact with an older mind. It is very hard to get the young American to do it. You can not get a young American to play his own football games. They won't play it themselves. They have to get somebody else to manage it for them, someone to coach, for the young American does...
...mechanics or its superficial aspects that such evidence may primarily be based, although they are significant. Last summer this writer was impressed by the attitude of older men toward the Confederation International des Students at its annual conference in Prague. Foreign Minister Dense of Czechoslovakia, for example, leading statesman of Central Europe, considered this student organization of sufficient value to devote to its representatives his house, his dinner table, and his serious interest. Similarly older, more experienced, and outstanding educational leaders have, as it were, gone out of their way to give evidence of their serious support of the Federation...
...Samuel Meeks-a man of 45, looking much older, with vague eyes half-closed in a sunburned, drooping face- rose from his chair and walked uncertainly out of a courthouse in Indiana. He did not know quite where to go, but anyway he could not go back now-not to Logansport. Alice Meeks, his wedded wife, had just divorced him. She complained that she found him a burden to her; she had kept him for a long time. Now he could go. She needed a man to work her farm. . . . The judge agreed with...
...Whitney, though seen and named in 1864, was not climbed until 1873, and no wonder! Now hundreds of people--men, women, and older children--climb it every summer and fish and camp; we passed hunting parties going in for the deer season, September 1, but the country is so immense we met few on the trails. Some young people, ror economy, hire a pack-mule and walk, but the trails are steep and often dusty, so that a horse is a necessity for real pleasure. Our horses were mountain bred, sure-footed, and gentle. We estimated the cost...
...business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than one type. If the younger generation is guiding the older through the maze of comedy it is doing it in a finished if unconventional manner...