Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
Aside from these intangible values which represent clear, educational gain, the instruction afforded abroad is roughly equivalent to that in the United States. Certainly, it is not necessary that the man appointed drop behind his class at Harvard. And on his return he, unlike older men winning travelling scholarships, may have an inside opportunity to influence the college community. Thus, by a natural seepage of ideas might the cause of international amity be furthered. It seems safe to say that such undergraduate fellowships would help in making general student opinion tolerant, as well as aiding the selected man to become...
...journalistic comment, reaches this conclusion: the tabloids have discovered a new public. For, these new papers, easy to handle, to read, to look at, have run, in the city of New York for example, into a circulation of one and one quarter million copies without having proselyted from the older dailies, even considering retarded progress as well as actual impairment, more than one hundred thousand purchasers...
...parents casual in their praise; it is sufficiently naked to allow real inspection by the skeptic who rather doubts the worth of babies as items in the sum total of pragmatic profit; and it is enough of a power, for all babies are autocrats, to make the older brothers and sisters worry about future fatted calves...
...this wonder been a without its results. The lecturer still has a certain amount of influence in family circles. He makes his examination cover his lectures instead of the reading and smiles at the worried faces above the blue books. He is still an older son and knows his world...