Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spanish at Harvard. The authorities do not deny the statement but will not assert it as a fact. Mr. Marsh has resigned his position and will go abroad to study for two years on a full salary. He graduated here in 1883 and is under thirty years of age. He is said to be a man of great ability and was at one time thought of for the presidency of the Kansas University...
...supervision of E. Klapp, captain of the 'varsity crew. The candidates will continue training in the gymnasium until the first of April, when they will begin practice on the Harlem. W. Peet will coach them, and they will keep to barges until they have learned the stroke. The average age of the candidates is 18 years, the average height 5 feet 9 inches, and the average weight 146 1-4 pounds...
...some change should be made in the method of choosing umpires for the annual football contests. It is time that men should be chosen who have no personal interest in the success of either contesting team or of any third team in the Assassin, or else men of sufficient age and experience to be able to divorce what small interest they might have from their action. To come directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised that there are no competent men of this stamp...
...three-fourths of an inch less than the corresponding measurement in '91, and is probably the shortest measurement recorded in several years. The oldest is 26 years and 6 months, against 25 years and 8 months last year. The youngest man is 16 years and 2 months. The average age of the class is 18 years, 8 months and 26 days...
...Isaiah V. Williamson, is 86 years of age, and is of an old Pennsylvania family, one of his ancestors having arrived in this country and taken out a patent for 100 acres of land near what is now Philadelphia, five years before William Penn came over to settle on his grant. He is a bacnelor, and has been engaged most of his life in the wholesale dry goods business...