Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, at least in former years, has produced more writing men than her practical and sturdy rival. It was the custom of the elder sort to carry their literary wares to the market town adjacent. The new generation, however, with the keen instinct of youth, perceives that a broader life, a surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic...
...students at Eton College made a five horse power steam engine, which is now used in the college shops for turning lathes, and now each of the elder boys has his seperate forge...
...experience, trivial, untrue, despicable and ridiculous." The sexes pursue the same courses of study "without harm to any one or to any interest, but with the most unequivocal mutual advantage." Lady students no more require a lady principal, matron or guardian than the boys need a mother or elder sister to take care of them. Female candidates for graduation in the medical department have several times gained the highest number of marks. The same amount of work is required from them as from the male students, and things are in no wise made easy for them. Professor MacLean adds that...
Matthew Arnold has written a volume of "Irish Essays and Others," which Smith, Elder & Co. publish. This does not agree well with Mr. Arnold's determination, expressed in one of his latest books, to abandon, for the future, discussions in politics and theology and devote himself to literature. There is an interesting and appreciative, if not a brilliant, sketch of Mr. Arnold, in the April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek...
Precocious children - "I know," said the little girl to her elder sister's young man at the supper table, "that you will join in our society for the protection of little birds, because mamma says you are very fond of larks." - [Philadelphia Bulletin...