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Fairfield was graduated from St. George's School at Newport last June, passed his examinations for admittance into the College, but did not register in September. Shortly afterward he joined the Wynne Bevan Ambulance Corps, an English organization. He was only 18 years old, the youngest of the five Americans in the Bevan service, and also the youngest American in any branch of the army in Italy. The other members of the ambulance corps are English citizens...
...represented Salem in the General Court for seven years. Following in the footsteps of his father, Mr. Choate entered Harvard College, after receiving his preliminary education in the Salem public schools, and graduated in 1852. Two years later he received his degree from the Law School. He was the youngest of Dr. Choate's four sons, and married Caroline Dutcher Sterling...
...record of individual ages of graduation, Dartmouth has on its list one member of the Class of 1793, who received his degree when slightly less than 15 years of age. According to the existing records this is the youngest man who has graduated from Dartmouth College. The minimum individual age of graduation at Cornell is 18 years and 11 months. At Harvard and Yale there are no available statistics kept for the individual ages of graduation, though at the former, men have been known to finish the course at a very early age. In Princeton the ages of the youngest...
...Harvard Observatory and showed that the ancient instrument, the abacus, could be used to advantage in calculations there. One of his latest enterprises was the study of color in the department of fine arts, a work so highly appreciated that he received an appropriation from the American Academy, the youngest recipient of such an honor. It is difficult to estimate what might have been his future, from so remarkable a beginning. He also interested himself in the higher mathematics, in illuminating manuscripts, in paleography, and was a member of the University chess club, winning the novice championship in his Freshman...
Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...