Word: age
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...EVERY age has its humorists and wits, and the depth of their humor is no doubtful index to the literary attainments of its thinking minds. While one epoch jests like a Touchstone, another is content with nothing less than a Sheridan, and the age itself is clownish or witty accordingly. To those who have scanned most eagerly the literary horizon of our own age for the predicted rise of its great facetious luminary, the meteor-like appearance of Henry C. Carey* among its most brilliant stars came with all the surprise that the greatness of the event demands; and every...
...somewhat different school of American humor. While exhibiting a less fertility of imagination than the "Social Science," and perhaps less profundity of obfuscations than the "Intellectual Science," yet, in play of fancy and subtlety of wit, the "Harvard Bible"* is second to no other humorous production of this age. In it we think we find traces of a familiar pen, and recognize, here and there, the touches of a master hand, whose productions are not entirely unknown to the undergraduate world. There is a delightful vein of half-concealed, often completely hidden humor running through the work and coming into...
...dangerous illness, but the announcement of his death was a shock for which no one was fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen Post is particularly distressing. His funeral took place in New York on Thursday, 30th December, and was attended by a large number of relatives, friends, and classmates...
...average age on admission to college has now increased to eighteen years and five months, which is high enough to secure a proper degree of maturity, and the Faculty have therefore no desire to see it higher. The tendency of the increase of the requisitions for admission to raise the age is counteracted by improved methods in preparatory schools and by the division of the examination. A very interesting table is given of the variety of occupations of the fathers of students, showing that almost every class of society is represented, and that the greater part of the students...
...institutions which a fast age has fixed...