Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete cast is as follows: "Hagoromo", A Noh: Tennis Miss Madeline Brine '22 Hakuryo Leonard Ware '21 A fisherman Honderson Matthew '23 Chorus W. Sherwood '24, C. D. Morgan '24, Peter Wooldridge '23 "The Blind: Miss Ethel Woodworth '23 Oldest Blind Woman Miss Florence Scully Unc. Miss Grace Cobb '21 Blind Girl Miss Louise Dalby Madwoman Miss Louise Daly Three Praying Women Miss Janet Fairbanks Unc. First Blind Man G. M. Kendall '24 Second Blind Man R. C. Burell Unc. Third Blind Man K. O. Mott-Smith '22 Oldest Blind Man Conrad Salinger '23 Fifth Blind Man P. R. Harmel...
Again every good play by the Oglethorpe athletes--and there were lots of them--was warmly applauded from the Harvard bench. In short, the baseball players from America's oldest university play ball with the spirit that it is pleasure to meet another college in honest conflict and because the college is opposing them does not of necessity indicate that its athletes are burglars halfwits, or unfit for the society of the ordinary run of human beings...
...enter as undergraduates are excused from the work of the first year and begin at once on an "Honor School" a broad course of reading and study in some branch of learning carried on for two full years under the personal direction of a "tutor." Among these schools the oldest and most famous is Literae Humaniones (Classics, and Philosophy). Others are Modern History, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, English and Modern Languages. After two years at one of these the student is tested by a series of comprehensive examinations, and placed as a "first," "second," "third," or "fourth," according...
...begin with, some of Lampy's most honored honorary editors, Charles Daffa Gibson, who now owns Life and with the aid of several former Lampooners is making it at last a worthy offspring of its proud parent, contributes a sketch. Stephen Leacock submits a friendly little piece called "The Oldest Living Graduate," which is placed at the head of the number, where any contribution by America's foremost living humorist deserves to be placed. There are also verses and sketches by the genial and versatile James Montgomery Flagg...
...human interests, the religious is one of the oldest and most influential. Historically it has been fruitful of both good and evil. It has inspired some of the worst crimes as well as some of the noblest enterprises of mankind. When aroused to activity it has been sometimes an uplifting and sometimes a degrading influence. Its power for good or evil is so great that it imperatively needs wise guidance. A learned minister today is one who is sufficiently familiar with the history of the religious interest to direct its activity into ways of present helpfulness. To this...