Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system in the art of teaching, and until that is remedied we must be content with what advantages we have. Still in this age of progression such an important fact ought not to pass unnoticed. The elective system has been one great reform in the line of study, and now the old system of instructing ought to be changed and improved...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -I should like to say a word to the freshmen about indiscriminate clapping at the chemistry lectures. The confusion and noise arising from these demonstrations cannot help being distasteful to a gentleman of Prof. Cook's age and temperament, and I think that the members of the class would do well to avoid anything of this kind in the future...
...were not so numerous as might have been hoped. Some of them were very good. One bore the legend, "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil," inscribed under portraits of Blaine, Cleveland and Butler. Another was dedicated to "Our Prohibition Candidate, C. J. W." Another announced that the average age of the Board of Overseers was "95 in the shade...
...been suggested that from the returns of the last canvass of the college, the votes of those over 21 years of age be taken and counted...
...member of a council held to frame some laws for the legislature. The site of his home is still known in Charlestown, although the building itself was destroyed in the firing of Charlestown during the battle of Bunker Hill. He was about thirty years of age when he died, and he left property in England. The date of his death is the 54th day of September, 1638. Although he left one-half of his estate to the college, the University only received one-half of the bequest, with the library. This library consisted of 302 volumes on various subjects...