Word: age
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...character of his home training induced Guyau, while still young, to follow the pursuit of philosophical studies, the lecturer dwelled for considerable time upon the philosopher's early promise and swift development. When nineteen he wrote a valuable book upon ethics and before he was thirty years of age he was considered the most prominent philosophical critic in France...
...third Harvard speaker, Fletcher Dobyns '98, is 23 years of age, and comes from Oberlin, O. He prepared at the Oberlin Academy, where he was president of one of the two debating clubs, and won second place in a state oratorical contest, although college seniors were among his competitors...
...exhibition room at the Agassiz Museum, showing the life of the Mesozoic or Secondary period will today be thrown open to the public. In popular parlance this period is known as the "Age of Reptiles," and accordingly in this room are placed a number of typical representatives of the huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet...
...precautions against overtraining men should (1) be examined before entering athletic contests; (2) No violent exercise should be taken before the age of eighteen; (3) no tight clothing should be worn; (4) perspiration should be stimulated to relieve the heart and lungs; and (5) there should be no eating within three hours of the time of exercising...
...pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the mile run, and before many laps are passed the race generally changes to a procession. Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University who are physically able to enter such a race without the danger of doing themselves serious harm...