Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other fellows. I think also that now that invidious class distinctions are passing away so fast that the other three classes ought to take more interest in the freshman eleven. We have a good team, and are going to beat Yale, and it would be wise in the older men to help us along as they will share in the glory our victories will bring to the college. If there are any objections to be urged against my ideas, I should like to hear them, and now remain...
...change would not be easy. If it be deemed unworthy the dignity of a student to be thus daily controlled, let me merely call attention to our great military educational establishments. The officers in the war academy and in the artillery school, who are, on the average, much older than university students, who are in possession of offices and rank, and are many of them married men, must daily put up with having their attendance at course of instruction marked. - N. Y. Post...
...following is from the Pennsylvanian: "Harvard college will celebrate its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary next November. It is not the oldest American University, as that of Mexico is fifty years older...
Caldwell, the stroke, is a new man, although he has rowed in his class boat, which has won several races. He is rather older than the rest of the crew, and is always cool and collected...
...discourtesy to Brown which we cannot pass over in silence. Brown is one of the smaller colleges, and therefore cannot be expected to present such a thoroughly picked nine as Princeton, Yale, or Harvard, and besides, she has not the reputation for base-ball which her three older sisters have established. But for this very reason, her men should receive at least a decent welcome when they come here and play a plucky game against such heavy odds. We trust that in future, the reputed in difference of Harvard men will not show itself in so marked and discourteous...