Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that prescribed for the young men, and, as may be thought, better adapted to their necessities. Such persons, if found worthy, will be entitled to receive the honors of the University. Brown University, which has always been conservative, is not unmindful of the demands of the spirit of the age, and will, in the end, be sure to adapt herself to the spirit...
...failure of the enterprise was evidently not due to lack of intellectual ability on the part of the students, for one who died during his course at the age of twenty years, is described by the President of the college at that time as an "acute gramarian, an extraordinary Latin poet, and a good Greek one." The building, after the school was given up, because the printing house in which John Eliot's Indian Bible was printed. It was finally destroyed by fire...
...crew averages 21 years in age; 5 ft. 10 1-2 in. in height; and 163 3 4 lbs. in weight...
...young on the average as the freshmen of American colleges, and which have had exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school training has been tolerably comprehensive. President Eliot thinks he should be prepared at the age of 18 to enter a university where the choice of studies is free. He holds that a boy has then passed the age when compulsory discipline is valuable, and he can no longer be driven to any useful exercise of his mind, and that he can select for himself...
...graduating class at Yale numbers 122. The average age is 22 years, 9 months, 11 days. The oldest is 39 Wiggins, the valedictorian, is the youngest, being only 19 years, 7 months old. Twenty-one will graduate under 21. Seventy-two are church members. There are 76 republicans in the class, 18 democrats and 24 "mugwumps." Of these 58 are free-traders and 44 protectionists. Thirty-eight hope to study law, 14 theology, 12 medicine, 5 banking, 7 teaching and 16 business...