Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ecclesiastical History. Special subject : "Religious Art of the Middle Age." Mr. J. H. Allen, Divinity Hall lecture room...
...contain 41 acres, with about 40 distinct buildings for the use of the pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden...
...Recipe for "Man Cake." - 1 cup of conceit, 3 cups of flattery, 1/3 cup of brains, 2 cups of self-esteem, 1 cup of small talk. Mix with a little "cash;" when done stir in a little love of notoriety, and you have the man of the present age. - [Lasell Leaves...
...evils of tobacco have once more been demonstrated. A colored man who had spent his life in Lorillard's tobacco factory has just passed away, and it is believed the tobacco must have been the cause of his death. The unfortunate man's age was 107 years. This is another solemn warning...
Scene : Primer geology class, 3333 A. D. Object lesson. Professor - "What is this which I hold in my' hand?" Class - "We are not prepared." Professor - "It is the tooth of a cat given to the college in the nineteenth century. How long tails had the cats in that age?" Class - "Seven and one-half feet." Professor - "Yes, this tooth proves that some were over twenty feet in length. What else may we learn from this?" Class - "That's as far as the lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk...