Word: aged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fellow of All Souls, and Froude, the historian, of Jesus College. Dr. Johnson studied at Pembroke, and many of his copybooks and manuscripts are to be seen there. Blackstone, of law fame, was also a student of this college. Magdalen, although not the most celebrated for learning or age, has the most beautiful surroundings, and is perhaps a favorite among the English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery of Alfred the Great's palace, and although the large brass nose fixed over...
...reason of these remarkable sunsets. The exact cause will probably never be known, but it is interesting to hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus to it has as yet been descried in any direction. Some scientists pretend that...
...with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes enter the gymnasia or military schools when they are from twelve to fifteen years of age where they remain for six years of age where they remain for six years of classical study...
...high on the sides. The benches are hard but the food provided is always good. At one end is an altar, over which grace is always said before each meal. Passing on from here we come to the library which contains 250,000 volumes, many of them of great age and value. The most precious is undoubtedly the famous "Book of Kells," an old illuminated work on parchment, of rare merit as a work of art. The library is open to studious citizens, as well as to those connected with the college and there is a tine reading hall...
...Varsity, of Toronto advocates the discussion of political questions in the Literary Society, citing the fact that Gladstone, Beaconsfield, and many of the most distinguished statesmen of the age have repeatedly testified to the political insight and readiness obtained through the medium of such discussions at college...