Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like all other colleges, Yale will soon hold a commencement. Like all other colleges, Yale will then be revisited by her alumni. Like all other colleges, Yale will have certain festive disorders, among alumni and undergraduates, on the occasion. Like others, she hopes that the older men will set a good example for the younger...
Like a few other colleges, but not many, Yale intimated this hope to the older men when she issued her commencement invitations. Like no other, Yale did this in such a way that the intimation savored of a lecture on party manners. A graduate of the class of 1875, resenting this lecture, sat down in gentlemanly wroth, called for his stenographer, wrote an irate letter to The New York Times...
...there any effort made to effect a change. Social intercourse is entirely a matter of individual option, and the men who sit beside us in classes have no more idea of how we lead our lives than we have of how they live. Then, too, there are many older men, frequently married, who have turned to Law after a few years in business, the ministry, or what not. It must be apparent that such conditions are a radical change from the Williams environment...
...interest of many Harvard men becomes more intense the older they get. This is true not only of men such as President Eliot, who has devoted his life to Harvard, but of men like Joseph H. Choate '52, who took an active interest in Harvard and in all Harvard affairs to the day of his death...
...Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover-"The older economists taught the essential influences of 'wish,' 'want' and 'desire' as motive forces in economic progress. You have taken over the job of creating desire. You have still another job-creating goodwill in order to make desire stand hitched...