Word: aged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the University of Pennsylvania, we had hoped that the time when a visiting nine would be subjected to the worst and meanest kind of "muckerism" was a thing of the past, but in this respect the students of the University of Pennsylvania seem to be far behind the age. In the first place, it was most ungentlemanly and undignified to print on the posters announcing the match that "Harvard say, we cannot play good enough ball to be admitted to the league. Come and see." Before the game, we had always supposed the Pennsylvanians could play good ball...
...youngest graduate of Yale so far known is Charles Chauncey, 1792, who graduated at the age of fifteen years, twenty-six days, and afterwards became a leading lawyer in Philadelphia...
...Physical Laboratory, on "The Training of the College and the Law School as a preparation for the profession of the Law," Mr. Abbott said that the common idea that the main business of the lawyer consisted in trying cases in court was entirely erroneous. The great characteristic of our age is the tendency to combination, resulting in our railroads and other corporations. As these corporate bodies have increased in size and importance, their relations with the state and with individuals have grown more and more complex, until now men of great legal knowledge must be placed in control of these...
With the exception of Harvard, no university in America offers more advantages in fellowships and scholarships than Yale; and those at Yale, though far less in number than those at Harvard, are yet, on an average, superior in value and in time of incumbency. The first in point of age is the Douglass Fellowship founded by Mrs. Samuel Miller in memory of her brothers,who were both Yale graduates. This fellowship, wiht a yearly income of $600, may be held for three years. The Soldiers' Memorial Fellowship yields also an income of $600, but it is more valuable than...
...ancient town of Idalium. In addition to these, there are a number of terra cotta heads and masks, some of Greek and others of Pheanician origin. The decorations on all these potteries are incised and not painted on the surface, thus showing that they belong to some pre-historic age...