Word: heights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Biard prize at Princeton of $100 is awarded to R. W. Mason. This gentleman, who has the misfortune to be a hunchback, and is not four feet in height, has succeded in capturing both First Junior Orator prize last commencement and now the First Biard prize for oratory, and he is, moreover, the first man in Princeton College who ever took both these prizes...
...converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...once of old from Ida's lofty height...
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...kind hospitality shown to the senior class last Thursday evening is a matter we take upon ourselves to thus publicly mention, not only as a sign of our sincere appreciation of the warmhearted interest shown in our behalf, but also because it is a token of the height upon which education is now dawning. No longer are we in college divided into men and boys, professors and students; but, to insert Dr. Hale's good phrase, the distinction is only, "You old fellows, and we young fellows." College, then, is merely a giving of the experience of the older fellows...