Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talking with a '64 man a short time ago, the writer was much amused at the picture of life here at that time, and also impressed with the change which such a comparatively short time has worked in the college discipline and surroundings. Only what are now the oldest buildings were standing then, the old gymnasium and Gray's were completed at about the time '64 graduated...
...personal history of some of the students was thrilling. The oldest of the two Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take...
...professors more; and living at Cornell is cheaper than here. All these advantages over us may in time make her a strong rival. But in spite of lack of means, poorly paid professors, and the high cost of living here, Harvard still has the priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges, she has gathered about her name a mass of tradition and sentiment which will ever charm the imagination, and waken the enthusiasm...
...worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must be for us an ideal. In part, to be sure, she does fulfill this calling; but in part she fails. As the oldest college of our country, more sentiment and tradition has gathered around her name, than around any other. She has come down to us as a heroine out of the past. For two centuries and a half she has stood for something of the greatest worth; and we believe that...
...Harvard a university, were beginning. Through change and storm she has remained steadfast. During her life one college paper and another has risen, flourished, and died; but she alone, among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly and worthily sets forth our best thought, she, like Harvard, shall reckon her age, not by scores of years, but by centuries...