Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the battle was to be fought, was placed in the centre of a compact mass of her classmates, who were resolved to defend her at all hazards. The sophomores, confident of an easy victory, had made few preparations for the contest, except that of putting on their oldest clothes, and they were guilty of the extreme folly of wearing their own back hair, a mistake which, as the event proved, was destined to make the struggle a fruitless...
Princeton has lost three of her oldest and most distinguished professors during the last twelve months...
...less than twenty-one separate colleges, all of which have their own officers and buildings and are situated in various parts of the town, each college consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good...
...midst of the noise and bustle of the town of Oxford, and within a stones throw of the classic Isis stands Magdalen College, if not the oldest, at least one of the most celebrated colleges of the "town of learning." The view of the college from the High street on which it stands is disappointing, and it is only on walking out upon the bridge over the river that the beauty of the buildings appears. The most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround...
...William Perry, of Exeter, N. H., the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College, celebrated his ninety-sixth birth birthday on the 20th ult. He is in remarkably good health...