Word: ages
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...weights and ages of the Wesleyan College crew are as follows: H. Sewell, captain, '76, age 21, weight 155 lbs., height 5.9 1/2; W. W. Van usen, '78, age 22, weight 152 lbs., height 5.8 1/2; E. L. Mead, '78, age 20, weight 153 lbs., height 5.8 1/4; F. G. Holcomb, '76, age 23, weight 149 lbs., height 5.10; W. E. Ward, '77, age 22, weight 145 lbs., height 5.8; B. A. Rich, bow, '78, age 21, weight 150 lbs., height...
...forgets that truth loses no strength by age, that "Repetition is the mother of Memory," and that some truths cannot be too constantly borne in mind...
...would have been better for our Advocate reviewer to have confined his unchivalrous and uncharitable attacks to Mr. Emerson's advancing age, to grandiloquent remarks on Immortality, and to hunting out obscure passages in these essays, instead of criticising the best Persian scholar in America; for therein he shows a censurable lack of respect for an acknowledged authority and a lamentable amount of ignorance and unfamiliarity with the subject. The writer is surprised that Mr. Emerson did not devote more attention to Omar Khayyam. Why should he? The fact that Omar Khayyam, previously almost unknown from the rarity...
...taught us so many never-to-be-forgotten lessons in true wisdom, it would be unmanly and ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack...
...association. We trust, the "Old Powder-House" may not meet the common fate, on its windy perch, surrounded by barren acres of stunted pasture, beyond whose limit civilization seems unwilling to trespass; it has preserved an atmosphere of its own; wind and storm have played their pranks with its aged walls for many a year, but it has stood them bravely. Let us hope that its fortunes escape the devastating hand of improvement and survive to see an age when it may look for sure protection and respect...