Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that any older members of your family, of your relatives, or any older friend of childhood, dominates you against your will...
...exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom...
George B. Siddall, toastmaster, welcomed the four, read telegrams, handed them in sheaves around the table. His hair was white as the table napery, but these gentlemen ? Messrs. Burton, Goulder, Smith, Hadden?were among the older men at the Cleveland Bar when he came there in 1893, he said. He called upon them each in turn and they rose to reply. The well-fed lawyers of Cleveland, fathers of the law, bent forward, giving ear to the forefathers of their association...
...statistics from one group of men at least would have been the result. A much more interesting and valuable set of statistics could be obtained from a similar census of the whole college. Confronted with such figures that delightful myth, so popular among comic writers and moralists of the older generation, which patterns college life as a constant rush from gin lo Scotch must shrivel and die. A more scientific discussion of the whole problem of prohibition might be inaugurated by the gathering of detailed and accurate statistics...
...father's estate. The fight is still on, although George Jay died nearly two years ago. His brothers and sisters are trying to recover $30,000,000, which they say he lost from the estate by mismanagement, from his ten children by two marriages. Of the seven older children by his first marriage- Kingdon, Jay, George Jay Jr., Marjorie, Vivien, Edith, Gloria- three eloped, one married an English nobleman, and one the daughter of an Hawaiian princess...