Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...removed from a life of activity and usefulness, in his sixty-seventh year, - an event which has elicited hardly an expression of regret from our leading journals. From a Boston paper we learn that Sir Edward was the son of General Bulwer, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at an early age, and was graduated at Trinity Hall; he delivered the Chancellor's prize poem, and began his literary life when quite young. From the same source we learn that he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal, and afterwards as a Reform candidate, - the date of his being raised...
Unto her father's heart, lest age or dowry...
...will be remembered that the average age of admission to Harvard is above eighteen. Dr. McCosh says...
...youth should be quite ready to enter college at the age of sixteen," and with students of sixteen or eighteen, the temptations to idleness and dissipation can only be counteracted by a system compelling attendance at recitations. Examinations at the close of the year will not check these evils; they cannot make up for the want of a weekly and daily training, and without such training they are liable to the fatal evil of cramming. Moreover, if attendance on recitations is voluntary, instructors will content themselves with giving lectures, and will care little whether their pupils receive benefit...
...bent and wrinkled by age, dressed in cocked-hat and knee-breeches, with his hair powdered and done up in a queue. He looked like some Rip Van Winkle who might have graduated any time early in the last century, and have been sleeping quietly from that time, only to wake then and trouble...