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Think what the world would have missed had a retirement age been universally enforced in the past.  Gladstone was Prime Minister of England at 83; Benjamin Franklin helped frame the Constitution of the United States at 80; Sliver Wendell Holmes retired from the Supreme Court at 91; Henry Ford, when past 80 again took the presidency of Ford Motor Company, and Alonzo Stagg was named the “Football Man of the Year” at 81.  After Dr. Milton J. Rosenau retired from the Harvard Medical School at 67, he went to the University of N. C. and built  one of the greatest schools of public health in America, and several years ago we read of a college in California that was said to have the highest standard of education in the U. S.  All of the faculty had been retired from other institutions of learning.

The Scandal Sheet in Quote, May 7, 1967, page 362