Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rupert Sargent, formerly of the class of '84, was drowned during the month of August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen...
...appointment of Mr. Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor...
...afternoon. As before remarked, fees at first supported the lecturers, but gradually lectureships were founded by the cities, and the governments gradually gained their present power over the universities, and professors were no longer chosen by the students. The age of the students was various, but they were usually older than at the present day, it being reported that men of fifty years of age turned their steps towards Bologna upon the news of a new study, as Roman...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity publish a quarterly, of which the second number has appeared. It is nearly forty years since the society began in Yale in a revolt against the too great exclusiveness of the older societies; and it shows no sign of decay...
...devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully guarded, the existence of which however, is thus signified to the public. If this inquiry happens to be addressed to an older member of one of these societies-a graduate, say, who left college a score of years or a quarter of a century ago-it will be answered by a smile which conveys the idea-which, very likely, will also be verbally expressed-that the secrets are of no account...