Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Subjects which did not tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system or not. A young man might pass creditably, nay, with distinction, through school and college, and find himself when he came to age unable to speak any language but his own, and ignorant of any branch of science, although, perhaps proficient in mathematics, Latin and Greek. Such an education, they might say with Locke, fitted a man for the university rather than for the world...
...limiting his studies too strictly to his own specialty, or his intercourse to his own particular sect or caste. Every man needs at times to travel out of the circle of himself and of his own peculiar ideas, and to come into contact with others unlike himself in age, sex, occupation, tasks and opinions...
...with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges on his faltering steps in an almost vain endeavor to drag a cumbersome snowplow through the mighty drifts. Spavined, aged, Lame, his case would surely seem to be one to provoke the pity and interference, if not of the college officers, then of some of the numerous societies formed for the protection of such as he. We will say nothing of the rumor that this animal, together with his companion in arms...
...periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon be put in the room...
Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles died yesterday morning in his room in Holworthy at the age of seventy-six. For the last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became...