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...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...
...hope. In September, 16-12, it was the first class that was graduated at Harvard College. The first graduate was Benjamin Woodbridge of New bury. From the first Commencement in 1652, till 1773. degrees were conferred on the students, and their names arranged in the catalogue, not according to age, or scholarship, or the alpheber, but according to the rank their families held in society. This Benjamin Woodbridge was born in England but came to America in 1634 with his brother. He had been a member of Magdalen college in Oxford. Eng., but chose to complete his collegiate education...