Word: aged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years of age. At the hour appointed for his lecture, the professor, generally attired in full dress, makes his appearance through a special door at the back, seats himself, mixes his sugar and water, rids himself as rapidly as possible of his researches, drinks his sugar and water, and retires as rapidly and mysteriously...
...claims of locality and method of competitive examination suggested in the Pendleton Bill;" Mr. Marland C. Hobbs, class of '85, received the third prize for an essay on "The Effect of the Spoils System on National Legislation." Competitors were residents of Brookline and under twenty-five years of age...
...there is room higher up. And certainly, Mr. Hale continued, we can declare within the secresy of this chapel, that there is always room for Harvard men. Skill is needed on every side - the skill that is possessed by graduates of our colleges. Probably in no age of our country's history, in education of the young, was so deserving of the title "golden" as when Webster, and Choate, and the many great men of that time devoted their time after college to the teaching of the young. Such men are needed now. As the laws of choice...
...Harvard, sixty years ago the average age of freshmen was fifteen years, many students entered at the age of twelve...
...rendering of the two songs to Mr. Henschel's accompaniment was exquisite, and the audience responded with enthusiasm, calling Miss Beebe out four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner selections previously given in the course. Labyrinthian in its construction, and delightfully startling in its cadences, it is instinct with the spirit...