Word: younger
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...development of Harvard College. And now, after having led the way these forty years, having overcome obstacles and prejudices that would have daunted the soul of one less hardy, having always pressed forward, the President is ready to lay down his work and pass along the responsibility to younger shoulders...
...well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest of its members, how he always seemed to take the side of a student in trouble, much to the impatience of some of us younger brethren, who were too apt to think that "something must really be done about this case." But when he wished not to save you, you were always made to feel that your punishment was not greater than you could bear, and that you could make it serve you to something better...
...important step in the transition from old to new in that department of the University. A medical school perhaps more than any other educational institution needs to keep abreast of the times. With its unsurpassed equipment in the hands of the present dean, whose age places him with the younger generation of doctors, unhampered by traditions of an older teaching, the Medical School should be able to maintain a place in the front rank of modern medical science and develop to the utmost its splendid endowment...
...peculiar assignment of the rooms; but on the other hand, there is the excellent contention that a mixture of men of all classes, of law and graduate students even, is the best possible arrangement for a dormitory in giving a man opportunities for friendship with men both older and younger than himself. Whatever the possibilities of this scheme may be for men with a year or the experience in undergraduate life, it is rarely true of Freshmen, and Princeton is fortunate in being able to group a large number of their first year men near each other where they belong...
Although one of the younger men in the Senate, Senator Beveridge is considered one of its ablest speakers and legislators. On account of his close relations with the present administration, he is often looked upon as its spokesman in the Senate. He opened the last presidential campaign in 14 states for the Republican party, and took a trip a short time ago to the Philippines to investigate the conditions there...