Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SERIES of papers on American student-life have appeared in Die Gegenwart. The author, Mr. Otto Gross, selecting Harvard as the representative college, calls her the oldest and most renowned of American colleges, and Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
During the year William Freeman, the oldest living graduate, passed away, nearly ninety-six years of age, leaving the venerable Joseph Head, class of 1804, patriarch of the Alumni. There still remains at least one representative of every class since 1803, with the exception...
...average age of the Senior class at Yale is 22 years 6 months. It is the oldest class, with the exception of '71 and '78, of which there is any record. As far as can be ascertained the choice for professions is as follows: Lawyers, 49; Business men, 14; Doctors, 13; Literary men, 10; Ministers, 9; Journalists, 5; Devoted to literature, pure and undefiled, 1; Engineer, 1; Opera-singer, 1; Bar-keeper, 1; Tramp...
...first college paper was the Gazette, issued at Dartmouth in 1800, chiefly memorable as containing numerous articles by Daniel Webster. This was followed in 1806 by the Literary Cabinet, published at Yale. The oldest of college papers now living is the Yale Literary Magazine, established in 1836. Secretary Evarts was one of the founders of this magazine, and D. G. Mitchell, Dr. J. P. Thompson, Senator Ferry, and President A. D. White have been among its editors...
...anticipating the relish of this happiness before I left my old lodgings, and was realizing it as I went down to dinner with my cousin. But we were no sooner seated than I observed that although this lady was on my right hand, my friend's oldest boy, to my misfortune, was on my left. The boy is now about seven years old, and possesses many of his father's good qualities, but he has inherited from his mother an indiscreet zeal for chatting and propounding questions which, however becoming in the more mature and attractive, is out of place...