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...AGE AT COMMENCEMENT.Class of Class of Class of Class...
...London, Maj. Thomas Knox Holmes rode a Premier tricycle 50 miles in 4h. 43m. 26s., completing 52 3-4 miles under five hours. He started at 3 seconds after 12 and ended at 19 seconds after 5, when he had accomplished 53 miles. Maj. Holmes is 76 years of age, and was one of the original members of I Zingari Cricket Club...
...European universities of the Middle Age had their origin as free private unions of their students, who came together under the influence of celebrated teachers, and themselves arranged their own affairs. In recognition of the public advantage of these unions they soon obtained from the state privileges and honorable rights, especially that of an independent jurisdiction, and the right of granting academic degrees. The students of that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent...
...William Perry, at the age of ninety-five, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard University...
...celebrated son, Cotton, graduated in 1678 at the age of fifteen. His "Magnolia Christi Americana" was the most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class...