Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of total abstinence was first brought to his attention when 19 years of age, while tramping through the Maine woods. The lumbermen refused to allow any of their number to take any liquor of any kind with them into the woods. It was a measure of self preservation. In the log drives the most perfect control of every faculty was necessary, and the lumbermen would not permit themselves to be at the mercy of any one man who might wish to indulge himself. He was obliged to sacrifice his own pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers...
...college records show, of Father Abdy, the originator of that famous system of "goodies" with which every student has since had experience. On the first page of the song are these words : "Cambridge, Dec., 1730. Some time since died Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age; he had for a great number of years served the college in the quality of Bedmaker and Sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherits his whole estate which he bequeathed to her by his last will and testament as follows :" The words of the song were published early in this century in pamphlet...
...control of the general government. National support and minute classification are the chief characteristics of the system. The teachers are trained in government colleges and are paid fixed salaries. The schools are divided into three grades - primary, intermediate and collegiate. The baccalaureate degree is usually reached at the age of eighteen, and then follows special instruction for any profession. The daily routine is prescribed by the government and the students are always under the supervision of the instructors. In Germany every child is compelled by law to be instructed by some one appointed and certified by the government. A primary...
Professor Henry J. S. Smith of Oxford, whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank...
...education without the "sting" of accepting a scholarship. If the privilege of a scholarship is open to the same man he can, perhaps, get a college education which otherwise he could not have, or, at least, not without making himself onerously dependent on those of whom, at his age, he should be independent. Which case really gives the more independence...