Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...oldest student in the college is in the Graduate School. He is seventy-seven years old, graduated from Yale in 1834, and is now here especially to hear Professor Norton's lectures on Dante and Italian...
...Yale's oldest alumnus is a graduate of the class...
...Harvard Union begins its fifty-ninth year with the meeting in Sever this evening. The Union is not only one of the oldest societies in the college, but one of the most valuable. It furnishes men here their only chance to gain readiness and ease in speaking and thinking on their feet; and it cultivates in them a critical interest in social, political and economic questions. Every young man in these days, and especially every college graduate, is expected to be able to speak creditably whenever called upon. The Union furnishes an invaluable training for this sort of thing...
...worthy custom which the '91 Class Day committee have instituted in deciding to have the class march in a body to Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon. The preaching of the baccalaureate sermon is the oldest of the many beautiful customs which are associated with the senior's graduating days; and it is altogether proper that the usage should be followed in a spirit better suited to the occasion. The committee have wisely chosen the course which of all seems best fitted to the time. Every member of the senior class should do his part by complying with the request...
...Wickham, '15, Yale's oldest living graduate, aged 94 died on Tuesday...