Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Literary Magazine is the oldest existing college periodical in the United States...
...David Lathrop Hunn, aged 98 years, the oldest graduate of Yale College, has preached the gospel to three generations, and is still active in the work, especially among the children at Buffalo...
...University of Michigan," says President Haven in his inaugural address, "is the oldest, largest and most flourishing of the class of institutions that may rightly be regarded as State universities." This statement was true for America in 1863, and is true to-day. In its origin, the University of Michigan is at once a national and State institution. It owes its existence primarily to the far-sighted national policy, first declared in the ordinance of 1787, whereby it was provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted...
...Hunn,'18, Yale's oldest living graduate, celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday last week...
...William Goddard, now of Charlestown, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard. Mr. Goddard was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1796 and graduated in the class...