Word: coevals
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...first century of Harvard College may be divided into three parts: the first period, the time of the old New England theocracy, coeval with the existence of the Commonwealth in England; the second period, an uncertain time, during which the old charter of the College was revoked, and a new and more liberal charter granted by William and Mary; and the third period, extending through the provincial days to the first stirrings of the Revolution...
...Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen the intellect and broaden the man. There was a day when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that was an age coeval with bull-fights and duels. No person with refined sensibilities can look upon a modern game of foot-ball, with all its cruelly, and feel that it is in keeping with our civilization...
...College Kodaks," the second and fourth are the best, the former being the brighter of the two. It would have been better, perhaps, for mother Advocate's reputation as a teller of stories had she omitted the fifth Kodak, - a Travers story that has been for some of us coeval with Mother Goose...