Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respond with great pleasure to an invitation to write a message for the Harvard CRIMSON. I always count well spent the hours I may chance to have at any university; it is a very special privilege to be the guest of the oldest and one of the most famous of the great universities of the United States, and of a university which is so closely linked as Harvard by historical association and by present comradeship with the universities of England...
...University Summer School, is the oldest Summer School in this country, having been founded...
...from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like to ride in automobiles. . . . Does every little task for himself like sharpening his own pencils. . . . Here is Mr. Tchitcherin, member of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families in Russia, for four years now guiding with such delicate hands and careful brain the affairs of state, in order that all that once was, which gave his family their wealth and power, might never be again...
...born on Sept. 14, 1864, and grew up like any ordinary boy, but in the historic environment of Hatfield House, country seat of the Cecils. He was educated at Eton, and later migrated to Oxford, where he entered University College. Even when within the precincts of England's oldest university he took a lively interest in politics, and since his college days his whole life has been devoted to his country; for, as A. L. Kennedy wrote of his father, Lord Salisbury, he was " born of a class which habitually thinks of the interests of the State as identical...
Died: Washington Bissell, 102, "oldest college graduate in the United States," at Great Barrington, Mass. He graduated from Union College in 1846, and would have been 103 on April...