Word: age
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every team will consist of four men, each man to run a quarter of a mile. In the college race competitors must be able to qualify under the eligibility rules of the I. C. A. A., and in the school race they must not be over 21 years of age...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter...
Johnson's life was one of hard and poverty-stricken labor. At the age of twenty-six he had married a woman of forty-eight who had no beauty and very little fortune. Johnson was besides encumbered by several pensioners, even poorer than he, whose misfortunes had excited his pity. "The Rambler," "The Lives of the Poets," and the Dictionary-finished in 1755 after a Jacobean struggle of seven years-had brought the doctor fame, but comparatively little money. In 1759, however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days...
Following this discussion the Report contains interesting figures concerning the numbers of students coming from different schools and colleges from the year 1871 to the year 1895; also a table showing the average age of the entering classes since...