Word: aged
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...American Drama," formerly instructor in the English department has been reprinted from the "History of Middlesex County." As one looks over such an account of the corporate, material and intellectual growth of Harvard as well as of its legends and traditions, one is justified in feeling pride in the age of our University and in its progress since the days when Mr. Nathaniel Eaton and his usher Nathaniel Briscoe comprised the faculty. Such a review shows how indissolubly the college is linked with the names of those who are best known in the history of the Common wealth...
...Testament times, showing different phases of the life of the world in which Christianity shaped itself. He spoke last week of the Greek language and Roman rule that dominated the world, and also of the universal worship of the Roman emperor. Last evening he continued his description of the age of the New Testament, by speaking of the philosophy of the period and then going on to show the influence that the expatriated Jews had over the people among whom they lived...
...given the best part of their strength to the service of the college; and last week they formulated their opinion in a resolution which was unanimously adopted. This gives to any professor who has been in the service of the college for fifteen years, and who has reached the age of sixty-five, the privilege of retiring on half...
...that the college regulations have been lately made more strict. Especially does this apply to freshmen, who, having just come from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...
...Seaver of Yale has completed his measurements of the Academic freshmen. The condition of the class as a whole was fairly good. It is rather interesting to compare some of these measurements with those of the freshman class at Yale last year. The average age of '94 is considerably above that of '93; 18 years, 10 months being the age of the average '94 man, to 18 years, 1 month for last year's freshmen. Ninety-four is also the heavier class, averaging 135 ibs. to 130. '93, however, has the heaviest man, 242 lbs. to 203 of the heaviest...