Word: senior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following statistics may be of interest: The oldest and youngest man at the time of entering college, in the present Senior class, were respectively twenty-nine and fifteen; in the Junior class, twenty-eight and fourteen; in the Sophomore class, twenty-three and fifteen; and in the Freshman class, twenty-seven and fifteen...
...learn something in this respect from our friends of the smaller colleges. The senior in shiny black who takes life so very hard, and is so very pedantic, is not, to be sure, so dashing and cultivated a character as his contemporaries at Harvard and Yale, but he certainly can teach them one lesson at least, - that of earnestness. I would not, for the world, be understood to advocate what is sometimes meant by "energy" or "enterprise," that noisy spirit of "go-ahead-a-tiveness" which calls so loudly for the abolition of everything old under the head of "fogyism...