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...agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise. We are from all sorts of pursuits, all sorts of hobbies, but here there is only one. We are of all ages, born in different years, graduating in different years; but here we are all of one age, we are all boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT DINNER. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

...walked on in deep reverie. "T is true," I said to myself, "that collecting is the rage of the age; I don't collect; can it be said that I am not of my own age...

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...rage of collections is the rage of the age," said my companion, as we were walking home from a lecture on the phonograph; "you've never collected anything, why don't you now start a collection of autophones...

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

Cornell. - The Freshmen crew's average is : height, 5 ft. 10 1/2 in.; age, 20 2/5 years; weight, 160 2/5 pounds. They are being coached by Ostrom and others, and will make a good fight for their race. In view of this, it is to be hoped that no man of our Freshman crew will throw a chance away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...leaving his mother, a woman of a keen, though uneducated mind, and his grandfather, a relic of Revolutionary days, as guardians of Jeremiah's early years. History is almost silent about his childhood. We know that he early developed a taste for letters. He learned his alphabet at the age of two, and literally devoured his picture-books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH SMITH. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »