Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...
...present the Yale freshman crew is made up as follows: Mosle, bow; Gill, No. 2; Wells, No. 3; Buchanan, No. 4; Wilcox. No. 5; Fanchot, No. 6; Carter, No. 7; and Stewart, stroke and captain. They average 21 years in age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and 157 1-2 pounds in weight...
...opera. Back of this, the "proscenium" or regular stage of the Greeks, was elevated four feet, with marble steps leading to the "orchestra." The back scene had the three doors required in all Greek plays, the buildings being of yellowish marble, shaded and stained with age. Above the roofs of the houses rose the storied Acropolis. All the conventional rules were observed. Characters coming from the city entered on the left hand side. Those coming from other places entered at the right. The use of action as well as declamation, however, was a departure from ancient customs which made...
...members of the university. The great expense and the inconvenience of rooms outside of the yard, are borne by a constantly increasing number of undergraduates, and the special pleasure of college life, which consists to a great extent in living in the midst of companions of one's own age and tastes, is denied in a great measure to these same men. Of course, as long as Harvard is too poor to build another dormitory, some one must suffer, but we think it only just to give upper classmen the preference over sub-freshmen, by limiting the number of rooms...
...been noted that the present age is peculiarly prolific of royal authors. Among reigning sovereigns who have written books are Queen Victoria, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Dom Luis of Potugal, the Shah, Oscar II of Sweden, Prince Nakita of Montenegro, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Queen Elizabeth of Roumania; and among princes and princesses who have dabbled in literature are the Princess Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of the King of Sweden, the duke of Edinburgh, and the Compte de Paris...