Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...times it has seemed that the lively interest which should always be shown in all University organizations has been wanting in the Glee Club. Soon after the Holidays especially, we heard numerous complaints that the older members of the club were leaving it, and that of the new men the material was anything but promising. Matters now, however, have greatly improved and the outlook is very promising. The new officers have gone to work energetically. The club receives regular instruction from one of the best teachers in Boston, the number and quality of the voices have been raised...
...average age of the regular freshman class at the Annex is 17 1-3; of the senior class at the beginning of the year, 19. At Harvard the same classes average at least two years older...
...first annual report of the graduate treasurer for athletics is enough in itself to show conclusively that the plan of having an older head to control our athletic expenses is a good one. When we think of the bad management in some of the past years, we wonder that the position of graduate treasuer was not established long before. Now that it has been put on a sure footing, we need have no longer the slightest fear of utterly reckless and extravagant managing by undergraduates...
...that students showed when questioned by outsiders about some of the great men now connected with the University. In addition to this suggestion that Harvard men should endeavor to know something about the most important of the professors, there might have been a similar suggestion concerning some of the older worthies who have had some previous connection with the University, and who have acquired such a wide spread fame that any man of average information, whether a Harvard man or not, ought to know something about them...
...candidates for the Andover baseball team are already hard at work. About sixty in all are in training; eighteen for the out field, twenty-two for first and second bases, seven for third base, and fourteen for the batteries. They seem to be heavier and older and older than last year's candidates. The captain seemed especially pleased with the work of several of the men who are trying for the pitcher's box, and Andover expects to be able to send a very strong team to Exeter in the spring...