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There are twenty-three universities and colleges in the United States founded before 1800. The ten oldest are: Harvard, 1636; William and Mary, 1693; Yale, 1701; Pennsylvania, 1740; Princeton, 1746; Washington and Lee, 1749; Columbia, 1754; Rutgers, 1766; Dartmouth, 1769; Hampden Sidney...
...Samuel D. Hosmer of the class of 1850, one of the oldest Congregational ministers in Worcester County, died at his home in Worcester, Tuesday evening at the advanced age of 65 years. He had held several pastorates in Eastport, Me., Nantucket, Hyde Park, South Natick and Auburn, and up to the time of his death supplied the pulpit of the Baptist Church in Grafton. He was deeply interested in antiquarian subjects and contributed papers on different topics...
...Jonathan W. Bemis, one of the oldest physicians of Cambridge, died of pneumonia at his home, on Sunday morning, after an illness of only three days. For some time he had not been in active practice. Dr. Bemis was eighty-three years of age. He had graduated from Harvard in the class of 1830, and from the Harvard Medical School, of which he was one of the oldest living graduates...
...Atlantic coast, notably in the Delaware valley, have been found the oldest relics of the paleolithic period. These are rude stone implements used for knives, hatchets, etc. There is a marked similarity between some of these implements and those belonging to the same period found in Europe...
...average expenses for the course are: Freshman year, $961; sophomore year, $1,099; junior year, $1,213; and senior year, $1,255. There are one hundred and forty-four Republicans and forty-four Democrats. One hundred and forty-four are for Protection and forty-nine for Free Trade. The oldest man in the class is thirty years and ten months, and the youngest is nineteen years. Seventy-five men think Yale's greatest need is money, and seventy-one that the West offers the most advantages to Yale men. Seventy-one men will study law, twenty-four medicine, thirty...