Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average age of the Yale freshman class is eighteen years and one month, one month younger than last year's average. The average weight is 130 pounds...
...been coached by Alexander, L. S., and has done good work under his charge; he will coach the crew while at New London. The members of the crew are too young, and consequently have not control of their bodies and lack firmness and precision, The crew is much younger than usual, the average age being only about eighteen years. They are not steady, and are stiff and "loggy;" they roll badly and therefore their time is bad; their blade work is sloppy. The members of the crew are very absent-minded, and this tends to increase the faults in their...
...number of men in college, but has not thus far awakened a very widespread interest. The game today on Holmes field furnishes an opportunity for all to see the work of our eleven and we hope that a large number of men will be present. Although one of our younger varsity organizations, the Cricket club has always been a cret to us and deserves some large show appreciation...
...girls and boys in the secondary schools are getting a fuller view of this incomparable character than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms the new government-services of which he alone was capable, and of his firm resistance to misguided popular clamor. They seehim ultimately vietorious in war and successful in peace but only through much adversity and over many obstacles...
...upon themselves in active business or professional life is now so great that, unless they faithfully develop their physical resources as a matter of fidelity to their own selves, they constantly impair their vitality and consume their strength. With all that is said for athletics among the younger men it is believed that their necessity among the older men is very imperfectly understood, and that the physical exercise of men in middle life might be increased many fold without bringing them up to the standard of a well balanced physical and mental life...