Word: aged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Age. Weight. Hight...
Daniel Pratt has at last come to the conclusion that we are living in an age of inspired Antediluvianism...
...then the undergraduates and the instructors are at once pitted against each other in the old hatred which, thanks to the liberalism of recent years, is fast passing away. But the second course. When we come here to college most of us are between nineteen and twenty years of age, and if we are not old enough then to take hold of the world as a man should, it is likely that we never shall be. Why should the faculty have the direction of our action beyond the lecture-room? There must of course always be rules regarding the care...
...taught in our schools, which occupy time which could better be devoted to the study of other subjects; or at least, to a greater degree of practice in simple operations. Who of us has not seen, in the hands of children of 11, 12 and 13 years of age, examples in "compound and complex fractions" which were more difficult than any operation which any bank cashier in the city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such as would hardly ever be found in actual business operations...
...this was taken in its liberal meaning, and a beautiful dress was considered necessary in worshipping the Lord. The beauty of holiness makes the plainest face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea joined to the conception of the modern word holiness, half its force is lost. Most men of the present day would rather be called...