Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems almost absurd to make any appeal to the college to support the Harvard Advocate, but from recent developments it would seem that the oldest representative of Harvard journalism is not meeting the support from the students which it richly deserves. Than the number of its readers has decreased, we do not believe, for such a state of things could hardly be consistent with the improvement in the contents of the paper which this year has shown. For many men, it is to be feared, have fallen into the habit of dropping in on some friend who takes the Advocate...
Carrol College, one of the oldest colleges in Wisconsin, was destroyed by fire...
Peterhouse College, the oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, has just celebrated the six hundredth anniversary of its founding. It was founded in the reign of King Edward...
...college extends to the banks of the Cam, while the new portion stretches away on the other side. Its New Court is justly celebrated. The Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, was the patroness of this college. St. Peters, or Peterhouse as it is generally called, is the oldest of the Cambridge colleges, as it was founded in 1257 by one Hugh de Balsham, and boasts a long list of celebrated graduates. It is to this college that the famous deer park is attached. Kings College, the gift of Henry VI, is connected with the great school of Eton...
...swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country. Of the Plussial universities, those of Prague and Heldeioerg, founded in the fifteenth century, are the oldest. The educational system of Germany ranks among the very best, and is admirably adapted for the advancement of science and philosophy. England has four noted universities, Cambridge, Oxford, London, and Burham, the two former having early come into prominence by espousing the cause of the Barous against the King. These...