Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interesting match of the evening featured Varsity Captain Edward O. Miller '37 and his younger brother, Robert O. Miller '40 in the Epee event. Pushing his older brother, who holds the New England Junior Epee Championship, constantly, Miller, Junior Champion of the Middle West...
...following year, both older sisters having returned to China, Mei-ling went to Wellesley. One of her brothers was studying at Harvard at the time, and the family wished her to be nearer...
...needed in executive functions of the Government and in private business. A lowered mental or physical vigor leads men to avoid an examination of complicated and changed conditions. Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future...
Five years older than Bishop Dougherty, Aglipay was a shock-headed Filipino who had entered the Catholic Church because the priesthood seemed to offer material advancement, had organized a band of volunteers after the Spanish War, fought the U. S. under Rebel Aguinaldo. Battening on Philippine hatred of the Spanish, and of the landowning, predominantly Spanish clergy which the Vatican had sent to the Islands, Aglipay founded an Independent Philippine Church, with himself as Obispo Maximo or head bishop. When Bishop Dougherty arrived, Bishop Aglipay claimed to have won over most of the Philippines' 7,000,000 Catholics...
...long been the custom in some of the older courses to prohibit return of the books. George L. Kittredge '92, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, never returned the books for his famous English 22, and Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, follows this practice in his Bible course...