Word: ages
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exhibition of Grotesque Tumbling was furnished by swinscoe, '85, assisted by Mr. Langdon of Union College. Their performances are equal to those of almost any professionals we have ever seen, and are really remarkable, considering the age of the athletes...
...Longfellow. The poet departed this life at a quarter past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his residence on Brattle street. He was born at Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807. He prepared himself for college at the public schools of his native city, and entered Bowdoin at the age of fourteen. Having taken the usual course of four years he graduated in 1825, and for some time devoted himself to the study...
...upon young men are perhaps not very pernicious, there are not many girls who would derive advantageous results from it. Experience has shown this to be true, and all the fine-worded, high-flown resolutions and sermons cannot make it otherwise. Doubtless a matured woman with mind strengthened by age could safely and well attend recitations and lectures, and partake of all else that co-education implies with men years younger than herself, but for inexperienced girls, with no knowledge of the world or its ways, it would be entirely different. Again, we say that people may express their pretty...
American students now enter college at the average age of seventeen. We have recently seen an old English book with the date of 1785, in which the average age of "ye freshmen at ye College of Harvard" is given as thirteen years and six months...
...fair chance for existence by compelling it to suspend so near the close of a term. If the association suspends operations, even for a brief time, its credit will be injured so that it will never regain its former standing. There is not another institution of its kind and age in this country, perhaps not in the world. Its members can make it just what they wish it to be, provided they take an active interest in its affairs...