Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many electives in the subject. Accordingly, a few lectures in Sever would not only supplement the regular college work, but they would get the attention of not a few who might otherwise slight the study of literature. Too many of us are likely to forget, in this age of the science of money-getting, that it is worth while to spend time upon that which can never be turned into bread. And, here, where we are not compelled to study literature, a large number of students, who make a specialty of science or the like, leave college without ever knowing...
...order to support himself and his family, cannot fairly be called upon to make a step toward rectifying the errors and faults of the law which are growing more numerous every day. The consequence is, and always has been, that the law gets far behind the requirements of the age in some matters, until a truly eminent jurisconsult makes its improvement his life work. Such things as this must be remedied, and there must be a class of men to remedy them. Every science and every profession would offer analogous opportunities for the development of a man's concentrated energies...
...among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly and worthily sets forth our best thought, she, like Harvard, shall reckon her age, not by scores of years, but by centuries...
Anyone who visits the college rooms here may note the prevalence of magazine reading. Monthlies like Harper's and the Century seem always to have a great fascination for college men. Such literature is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the age, and we are in full sympathy - one thinks sometimes in too full sympathy - with the modern spirit...
...Harvard's oldest paper. The number will be entirely made up by contributions from former editors, and a glance at the proof sheets show that it will be of unusual interest. The Advocate has now lived for twenty years, and is the only Harvard paper to attain that venerable age. It seems this year that the Advocate has received a new lease of life, and that rivalry has done her good. We wish her twenty more years of success and prosperity...