Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Natural History Society, of reducing its time of meeting from once a fortnight to once a month, and hope that it will become a law at the next meeting. It is appropriate that the Natural History Society should take the lead in this matter, as it is the oldest of what may be called the learned societies in College; and if the numerous younger societies and clubs which meet for purposes of instruction could be induced to follow this example, we have no doubt that the change would be most beneficial. Now a man may, and many do, belong...
...This is, then, Harvard College?" I said, with a sigh. My friend replied in the affirmative, and added, "As you seem a stranger here, perhaps I may be of assistance to you, if you desire to see the college. This is Sever, one of our oldest buildings," he said, with pardonable pride...
...safely attempted within the limits of a single day. The experience of three seasons have simply served to strengthen them in that theory. They believe, furthermore, that the people of New England who take pleasure in seeing a short, sharp, and decisive trial of strength between her two oldest and most famous colleges, will always be attracted to New London in numbers sufficiently great to make the profits of transporting them pay for the costs of good management; and they have no intention of ruining their own present prestige by attempting a complicated 'regatta' which might attract a larger crowd...
...feet were wound up in a Turkey rug. I felt like a fool; but the class looked satisfied and that was the main point. They were a curious collection of ladies, of various ages, from seventeen up to - well, I won't guess the age of the oldest. All but one wore glasses, and the effect of the combined glare of twelve pairs of glasses can better be imagined than described! One or two belonged to the Saturday morning club, and one to the Saturday evening, - the latter being, in my opinion, preferable to the former. Two of them were...