Word: age
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spent part of my spring vacation on the sea-shore, at my uncle's. It was cold and bleak; but I had quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were...
...article on "Radicalism in College" which represents by itself the literary talent of Williams, in the last Athenoeum, is sensible and thoughtful. In a young man radicalism is indeed an essential quality. It is only the exaggeration of enthusiasm, and at our age enthusiasm cannot be too much exaggerated, at least at Harvard, where it is certainly not a drug in the market, whatever may be the case at Williams...
...sure, there are many differences between the college life of the present and the college life of an age when the student received what mental instruction could be crammed into him while he was under the charge of his gymnastic teacher, when the library, which owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...
...oldest man in '77 is 28 years, the youngest 19 years 2 months; average age, 22 years 6 months...
From that gloomy age of stones...