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Examinations of Yale freshmen show that the S. S. freshmen are unusually strong in muscular development. The average age of the freshmen is 19 years. - a little younger than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

...nominated by the citizens of Cambridge for the office of mayor, and chosen by a strong majority over Mayor Fox, we took the ground that his selection, like that of Mayor Low in Brooklyn, was none the less wise because of his youth. He was only 27 years of age when elected, yet his administration has been so judicious and honest that his renomination on Saturday by the unanimous vote of the citizens' convention was looked for as a foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training to enter politics for honorable service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/24/1885 | See Source »

...Leverett Saltonstall, who has been appointed Collector of the Port of Boston, to succeed Roland Worthington, is a native of Salem, Massachusetts, and a little more than sixty years of age. He was graduated at Harvard in 1844, and spent three years in the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1885 | See Source »

Finally, let everyone realize that at the age of graduation from college the mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better and it will promote profit and pleasure, present and future, to adopt some definite and of course some interesting line of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Graduate Study. | 10/24/1885 | See Source »

...that prescribed for the young men, and, as may be thought, better adapted to their necessities. Such persons, if found worthy, will be entitled to receive the honors of the University. Brown University, which has always been conservative, is not unmindful of the demands of the spirit of the age, and will, in the end, be sure to adapt herself to the spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University. | 10/16/1885 | See Source »