Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Examinations of Yale freshmen show that the S. S. freshmen are unusually strong in muscular development. The average age of the freshmen is 19 years. - a little younger than...
...years, to choose a new president, it would certainly do well to consider Professor Dana. President Porter has made a most admirable and successful president, but President Porter will be seventy-four years old in December, and the burden of college administration must ere long rest on younger shoulders. Professor Dana is a graduate of recent times, his class having graduated in 1870, and he showed in his remarks last evening and in his personal conversation a decided grasp of the problems which now press to the front at New Haven." [Springfield Union...
...honors fell upon Messrs. Hildreth, Root, Parker, Noble, Dunham and Halbert of the academical department; Mr. Hardon of the Law School; Mr. Day of the Divinity School. After the bestowal of degrees by President Eliot, the exercises closed. Then came the jovial rallies around the punch bowls by the younger of the alumni, and while these festivities were going on, the more sedate of the alumni held their annual business meeting in Harvard Hall...
Harvard College is, with one exception, the oldest existing educational institution in America. It is, however, one year younger than the Boston Latin School. This school, through its alumni association, is to hold the exercises commemorating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding to night. With almost a hundred graduates of the school at present connected with the University, Harvard ought to be well represented to-night at the commemorative exercises...
...given business a fair trial, and by condemning as impossible careers that are simply misunderstood by their inexperienced and unsettled minds. Naturally, practical business men of a limited education, but early business training, are unwilling to take such superior (?) spirits into their offices and do not hesitate to prefer younger men, who are more amenable to reason and command than many of those well grounded in history, philosophy,-nay, all the liberal studies of a college education. Thus both employer and apprentice join in running down a career which is as full of promise for an highly educated...