Word: eightieth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, the same year becoming professor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Mississippi. In 1856 he was elected president of the university. In 1867 he was United States commissioner to the Paris exposition. Dr. Barnard is in his eightieth year...
...John Langdon Sibley, the librarian at Harvard for thirty years, has completed his eightieth year...
Last Saturday was the eightieth birthday of our venerable ex-president, Dr. Hopkins. In the evening the faculty, with their wives, called to give him a surprise party, and the senior class to present him with an elegant pair of seal skin gloves. Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins received their guests most cordially, and a very pleasant evening was enjoyed...