Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Adams Sherman Hill '53, LL.D., Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory from 1876 to 1904, and Professor Emeritus since that date, died at his home in Boston on December 25, at the age of 77. Funeral services were held in Appleton Chapel last Wednesday morning, Professor E. C. Moore officiating. President Lowell, President Eliot, Dean Briggs '75, Dean Hurlburt '87, Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, and Professor G. P. Baker '87, Professor W. G. Farlow '66, Professor Bliss Perry, Professor F. N. Robinson '91, and Professor Trowbridge s'65 were the honorary pall-bearers...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...footing which made a basis of intimacy, if occasion called for this; a footing which, in any case, left each new acquaintance feeling the gates of his own mind unlocked for him. He said jokingly, one day, that when he met a new person he asked him first his age and then his income, and this was almost literally true. Furthermore, these friendly relationships that he was so ready to establish did not always end with social courtless. Generous in deed as he was in word and thought, he gave without stint, now, perhaps, a contribution of money...
...Average age, 21; average height, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches; average weight, 175 pounds...
...average weight of the team is 175 pounds; the average height is 5 feet 11 1-2 inches, and the average age is 21 years