Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful. A few radical changes would raise a department which is now of little account into greater usefulness, otherwise it can never lift itself above its present state...
...Wilcox, '88 S., 155 lbs., is slow with his hands, pulls through the water unsteadily, finishes too shallow and does not lift his oar out clean. He is an old man and what is lost in weight is more than compensated for by the endurance which his age gives...
...average age of the graduating class of Columbia is twenty years and ten months...
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...thirteenth annual meeting of the board of trustees at Wellesley College, Miss H. A. Shafer, M. A., was confirmed as president. Miss Shafer has temporarily filled the position of president since the retirement of Mrs. Alice E. Freeman-Parker. It was also stated officially that the average age of the Wellesley student was 20 years...