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...average age of freshmen is still too high and remains at nineteen years, at which point it has remained for 10 years in spite of the efforts of the authorities to reduce...
...business is to absorb the energies of many of our graduates, four years of liberal training hardly seems too much, especially as in many cases those who go into business are from families already started in business enterprises, and are under no great pressure from either economy or age to begin their career...
...increase of the age at which men enter professions, a careful computation shows that in our graduating classes for the last fifteen years there has been no increase in age; and in two classes taken at random-one graduated fifty five years ago and one about twenty-five years ago-the age of the former averaged nearly two years more than that of the latter; which was an exceptionally young class. I may say that the graduating age of the class fifty-five years ago exceeded the average graduating age of the last fifteen classes...
...Farley is now very old and infirm, being nearly ninety years of age. The most distinguished member of his class, which consisted of eighty one members, was probably Mr. Sidney Bartlett, who died but a short time...
...George Bancroft, the historian, died at Washington last Saturday afternoon, in the ninety-first year of his age...