Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where not rudiments but sciences are taught by specialists, and where the learners are responsible young men who have chosen one or more of these sciences for a life work." But the college should aim to give a general preparatory culture to boys and youths, graduating them at the age of from eighteen to twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition...
...prefect, and by imperial promotion was made prefect. Since he came to Cambridge he has had three pupils, one of whom has studied under him two years, another about a year, another five months. He leaves a widow and six children, the oldest of whom is sixteen years of age. Nothing is known as yet as to what arrangements will be made for his funeral, but it is probable that his body will be embalmed and sent to China for interment. Prof. Ko was born in 1838, and consequently was forty-four years old at the time of his death...
...coroner's jury in Montreal yesterday returned a verdict that a child only seven years of age died of congestion of the brain, produced by strong drink...
...essential points of the argument most clearly. The grounds of the discussion are simple enough, but are too often lost sight of by undiscriminating fathers in choosing between Yale and Harvard, and by thoughtless conservatives generally. This correspondent points out the well-enough recognized fact that the average age of entrance at Harvard now is about the same as that of graduation fifty years ago, and indeed of graduation now from some of the smaller colleges. This brings an entirely new factor into the question which did not exist then, but which now entirely changes its character. Then, of course...
...average weight is one hundred and twenty-two and one-half pounds, and a pretty fair one it is. Average age, seventeen and one-half, and average gain in three months, whether owing to hard study, or to the much-despised but wise plan of "early to bed and early to rise," seven and one-half pounds. For the benefit of future husbands, who, like good old Dr. Primrose in the "Vicar of Wakefield," choose their wives not for their shining surface, but for good wearing qualities, we will add that seventeen are taking practice lessons in cookery, nine...