Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...
...adds much to the wonted activity of our affairs collegiate. '85 having put on sophomoric dignity begins to show some qualities not characteristic of funerals which were conspicuous by their absence last year. The present freshmen are for the most part large, well built men, and while the average age is about eighteen there are quite a number of them who long since passed their teens. The class looks as if it would make its mark in anything from dancing a German to playing foot-ball or rowing a race...
Notwithstanding his great age, the late Dr. Pusey took a leading part, until recently, in all affairs concerning Oxford University. His venerable figure, with the black skull-cap he invariably wore, was seldom missing from the meetings of the council...
Moses King makes a specialty of supplying residents in any part of the world with new and second-hand books, particularly those in fine bindings, and those of great value by reason of age or rarity. Any book written by a Harvard graduate, or used in Harvard University, can generally be obtained here, if obtainable anywhere...
...class statistics of '82 have just appeared and give some very interesting figures. The class is a very small one, graduating only thirty-nine men. The class is the youngest that has graduated since '75, the average age being 22 years, 5 months, 4 days. The average height is 5 feet 9 1/2 inches; weight, 154 2/3 lbs.; chest, 37 inches; forearm, 10 7/8; biceps, 12 1/4; calf, 14; hips, 33; thigh, 21; shoulder breadth, 17; hat, 7; shoe, 7; glove, 7 1/2. Eleven have chosen law; 8, business; 6, ministry; 3, teaching; 2, medicine; 1, science; 1, manufacturing...