Word: age
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have purposely reserved for our last word of praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy...
Throughout this work we find such minute directions that it would be insulting to their age to suppose that the girls at this institution were more than nine or ten years old; and we recommend the book as a curiosity, and as containing some useful hints to all who are interested in the primary-school system and Kindergartens of our country...
...show the peculiar brilliancy the students here possess. It was stated that the students carefully carried down stairs every article of bedding, while they with equal care threw crockery ware and mirrors out of windows. One would naturally suppose that this remark, which died years ago through old age and inanity, would have been allowed to rest in peace. This is only an unimportant one of many instances, and if they were all as harmless as this no great offence need be taken (although it must be rather disgusting to students to be held up to the public as entirely...
...garnered wisdom of a bygone age...
...chill hand of age, which, here below...