Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest. To kitchen and dining-hall workers, young, rapidly becoming proficient at their jobs, desirous of summer jobs now and better winter jobs later on, the American Federation of Labor had much to offer, whereas membership in an inside union would have proved a drawback. For the other groups, older, on the whole better off, anchored to Cambridge by families and real estate, there was little in and international brotherhood to compensate for its high dues. It is significant, too, that those who most trusted the University were those who had worked for it the longest...
...Founded in 1894. Only the music department of Chicago's famed Hull House is older...
Most of the older members of the department have over-emphasized the capitalization of the Classics, making them into a remote land in which they have sort of monopoly of exploitation. The notion that there can be any connection of thought between the Classical age and modern times has received little attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion...
...college of Mexico is the oldest college in America, being fifty years older than Harvard...
...criminals at large and passes by to speak to the Herald's music critic. Tomorrow we will see in her column, "Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience, the atmosphere--has a certain nostalgic pleasantness that the Vagabond can never forget...