Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...erect; his complexion light and delicate as a maiden's, with a slight bloom upon the cheek; his nose rather prominent; his eyes clear and blue, his well formed head covered with a profusion of light brown hair, waving loosely in the same manner as the gray locks of age. I have seen a portrait in his parlor in Cambridge that gives a good idea of him in his early life as I recollect...
...John C. Ropes lectured last evening to a large audience in Sever 11. He said that to estimate Napoleon justly we must consider him in relation to his time. He lived in an age of transition, when it was necessary to act boldly. He did by no means take away the liberties of France, but rather united them. He was a man of action, but rather of the soldier's type than of the statesman's. He trusted far too much upon the success of his arms, and hence finally fell. Many results of his industry, however, survive...
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Thursday evening the last of the Harvard Union debates drew its usual small audience. In comparison with the enthusiasm evinced in smaller colleges, Harvard shows a most remarkable indifference in regard to debating societies. May be that the oratorical spirit of our age is declining, but we suspect that the belief is gaining ground that extempore speaking can be acquired without much training. It should be remembered that seven years' practice in New England school-houses gave skill to Wendell Phillips, and one of the finest characteristics of Burke's writing comes from life-long habit...