Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect...
...oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, is Peterhouse, founded over six hundred years ago during the reign of Edward...
...William Perry, aged 98, and the oldest graduate of Harvard, died yesterday morning at his house at Exeter, N. H. He was the sole survivor of the passengers in Fulton's first steamboat. He was born in Norton, Mass., in 1788, and was a member of the class of 1811, Harvard College. The only surviving member of that class is William R. Rever of Plymouth, Mass, who is 76 years old. Dr. Perry was the grandfather of Sarah Orne Jewett, the authoress...
...oldest club, according to the "Index," is the Chicago Club, founded in 1857, with a present membership of about one hundred and fifty. Six new clubs are-added to this year's list, although two of them were not founded during the last year. These are the St. Louis, Maryland, Omaha, Rocky Mountain, Louisville, and Indiana Clubs. The full list at present contains seventeen clubs...
...drinking. I venture to suggest that the colleges interested meet by representatives and agree on some simple restrictions which will admit of our receiving all the benefits which may be had from manly exercises, of which we highly approve, without their incidental evils. I propose that Harvard, as the oldest of our number, be invited to take the lead in this matter and call us together, and I for one will feel bound by the decision come to. I have taken this initiatory step solely because I am now one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of the presidents...