Word: older
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...drawing, and no corkscrew could be found to fit. I offered to try to open it with a common screw and a string, as I had seen a friend do here at college. I tried and succeeded. "Thank you," cried the little girl. "O, how nice!" said her older sisters. The cousin smiled contemptuously, and observed, "Quite an undergraduate accomplishment, - opening bottles!" The little girl did not understand his drift; the older sisters did, and looked compassionately towards me. I felt and looked guilty, and very soon took my leave...
...there is another proof that interest in letters exists here, and that it is not confined to the recitation-room, in the fact that two papers, published fortnightly, are supplied by undergraduates with well-written articles, and poems which "would do credit to older hands"; while the popularity of the Fine-Art courses is an evidence of a growing desire for culture...
...President told the following story of himself at the recent dinner of the New York Harvard Club. He said that, contrary to the usual course of nature, he was growing younger instead of older as years advanced. About twenty years ago, when he was a tutor and proctor, he was disturbed one night by a noise in the Yard, and, going out to see what was the matter, he heard a voice exclaim, "Here comes old Eliot." But last winter, walking into town one evening, he met two undergraduates, and heard one say to the other, when he had passed...
...EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-I HAVE seen it stated, in more than one paper published at other colleges, that the Crimson and the Advocate are wonderfully fond of vaguely hinting that Harvard is older and larger than any other college in the country, that her system of instruction is unapproached, and that altogether there is nothing in the land to compare with her. Such remarks attracted my attention particularly, for the reason that I had never myself noticed this little peculiarity of our papers. I have watched them both of late, and I think now that there is a certain...
...piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor; she has her Magenta and Solferino, and now and then an April shower. If I ask her what she has read, she will break out laughing, - which speaks volumes. She never looks older, but every season, like a good standard novel, comes out in a new cover, - each more mysterious and complicated than before. She is there in rain or shine; you half fancy she is locked up at night in the great lonesome store, and never leaves...