Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...
John Owen, the well known publisher and friend of Longfellow, died in Cambridge Saturday night, at the age of 77 years...
Although we live in such an age of modernness and conventionality, Harvard still is able to retain many of the peculiar characteristics of college life in days of old. She still has her college pumps - Massachusetts with her ancient gable windows yet remains as a memento of a former age - and there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been...
...quick to respond to any advance in her requirements, whether in methods or in quantity." Thus she is secured to a large extent in her supply of students, and is therefore enabled to steadily raise her demands and receives none but the most thoroughly-prepared candidates. The average age of students at graduation is steadily growing higher. The class of 1881 reached the average of 22 years, 11.7 months. Thus she exacts a much higher quality of preparatory work, and is dealing with a maturer class of students than formerly. Higher quality as well as quantity in preparation is required...
...average age of women entering the colleges for women at Oxford and Cambridge is eighteen years...