Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their number had conspired to effect this by making a private appointment with the Dean for just that hour. The 700 shouted "Open the window!" Moved by an unseen hand, the pane swung from the frost-rimmed sill. Then from the motley group stepped a man of older years, George R. Nutter, a Harvard graduate, President of the Boston Bar Association. Circumstances forced him to speak in the manner of a tragedian uttering an aside?addressing the 700, but speaking to the window. He urged Dean Pound to refuse the offer of the University of Wisconsin, asserted that...
...Passed the Naval Appropriations Bill carrying $290,000,000, having defeated an amendment to provide for increasing gun elevation on older battleships, and having approved an amendment asking the President to call an international conference for further limitation of armaments. (Went to conference...
...whole meeting into the main church building, where the regular Sunday service had just come to an end. Speaking from the high church pulpit, Dean Pound addressed a crowd of over 600, made up for the most part of law school students, but also containing many women and older...
...expression of a mood" is Lampy's own half-apologetic explanation of how he came to devote his attention, rather actively, to the Harvard School of Business Administration. The S. B. A. got on Lampy's nerves, as it has on those of some older Harvard men. A "Business School Number" is the result, and the college community is the gainer by the neatest chaffing we have had for an academic generation...
However, the School has had its material reward. It must accept what goes with this. And if certain of its manifestations seem laughable to those who are being brought up in the older way--which continues to be possible at Harvard--the Business School ought not to be surprised...