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...average age of the Amherst freshmen is 19.2 years, their weight 130 pounds, height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1883 | See Source »

Richard Wagner, the eminent German composer, is dead in Venice, at the age of seventy years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/14/1883 | See Source »

...fault in our courses of instruction that I wish to signal out, but rather an accident in our college life. It is scarcely fair to expect men of the average age of the American collegian to compete in strength or breadth of mind with the older class who frequent European universities, but there are other equally valid reasons for our shortfallings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE. | 2/9/1883 | See Source »

Henri Tamberlik, the once famous Italian tenor singer, is dead at the age of 63 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/3/1883 | See Source »

Universities, as I understand them, are not absolutely essential to the teaching of professions. Let me make an extreme supposition. A great naval commander, like Nelson, is sent on board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It is in the course of actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY IDEAL. | 2/2/1883 | See Source »