Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life, which even then eclipsed that of the oldest graduate...
Omaha records show upon investigation by police reporters that there were 28 outrages and assaults upon white females, the youngest being a girl of 12 years and the oldest a gray-haired wom-of 62, within the period from July 15 to September 6 of this year. All assailants in being described to police were described as negroes, and three negroes caught were actually identified. Newspapers, at the request of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, refrained from commenting upon the situation, merely publishing the facts of the cases. One of the negroes, identified as the assailant...
...heads. For its final six weeks of undergraduate existence, 1919 will for the first and last time assume a scholarly aspect. The sedate Seniors will stumble along in unfamiliar skirts, to the detriment of their own good humor, until they receive the coveted sheepskin. Thus will one of our oldest traditions be continued...
...playing with the ABC's of knowledge. Here was the man who established the first working laboratory in physics in the United States. It was necessary for him to spend many years in the mere measurement of satellites and stars. When we remember that astronomy and physics are the oldest branches of science known to civilization, we catch a glimpse of the vast fields for exploration before us. Professor Pickering with a few other Harvard men of his generation whom we have come to mourn, have shown us the courses to be followed. Our "Vale" is said with the full...
...issue of the Advocate has appeared and the critics say it is a good one, which is as it should be. We are pleased to notice that "Harvard's oldest and only" literary paper is alive and flourishing, though now we recall that it never actually suspended operations. It produced one notable issue in that time of trial and tribulation when the S. A. T. C. was at the door and many other organizations ceased operations. Need we praise it further...