Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...habit of sneering at politics and politicians. A college professor once committed a murder; it would be rash to assume that all college professors are inclined to homicide. It is the duty of every man of brains and leisure to go into politics. Be in sympathy with your age and country, - your country especially. Anglomania is synonymous with a weak intelligence and an imperfect education...
...students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after the manner of the Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies and organizations of to-day were illustrated...
There are in the German Universities 167 professors between eighty and ninety years of age who still continue to give lectures...
...average age of the young (?) ladies at Vassar is twenty-eight...
Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...