Word: aged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...full college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would be interesting to learn the individual history of such an alumnus, but it might be the history would be one of a comparative triumph-the history of one who, at the age of eighteen knew almost nothing, but who had then toiled hard and had reached the substance of common knowledge and education...
Although it may seem a sacrilege to many that Gilbert has taken the material for his new comic opera Libretto from Tennyson's poem "The Princess," yet it can scarcely be wondered at in this busy age, when even Shakspere cannot escape being travestied by popular playwrights. Early in his literary career Gilbert wrote a burlesque of the Princess for one of the leading London theatres, and it is merely this burlesque, remodeled and polished up, that has achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess...
...father of Prof. Willard Fiske, late of Cornell University, died in Ithaca on Sunday, at the age of eighty...
...college papers. Leaving out of consideration the benefit to those who later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble to bring out their powers, and so never find they have them. And to any man it is of the greatest importance to be able to put his thoughts, when occasion requires, into good form. Now there...