Word: eldest
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...consistent. As its name teils, it describes the greatest war of King Bharata, a war which was trivial both in its causes and its effects. The tale runs about as follows: King Bharata sees his end drawing near, and divides his kingdom amongst his sons and nephews. His eldest son, Udostheera, a man of spotless character, was dominated by the master passion of gambling. Udostheera lost all his property, his wealth, his lands and his kingdom, and finally he agrees to leave his kingdom and to live with his four brothers and his wife in the forest for thirteen years...
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Pitkin of Philadelphia, and Mr. Charies Eliot, '82, eldest son of President Eliot...
...youngest man in the freshman class at Yale is 15 years and 10 months old; the eldest 30 years and 2 months...
...sides of the tent. The pavilion was erected on sloping ground, and the tables rose one above another in the form of an amphitheatre. On the lowest sides of the area, tables were placed on an elevated platform, for the President and Vice-Presidents of the day, and the eldest and most distinguished of the Alumni and their invited guests, to the number of one hundred. By this arrangement, every individual seated in the amphitheatre would face the table at which the president of the day and the principal guests were seated. Behind the chair was an arch covered with...
When the Chief Marshal named the classes of the Alumni, it was deeply interesting to mark the result. The class of 175? was called, but their only representative, and the eldest surviving Alumnus, Judge Wingate, of New Hampshire, being ninety-six years of age, was unable to attend. The classes from 1763 to 1773 were successively named, but solemn pauses succeeded; they had all joined the great company of the departed, or, sunk in the vale of years, were unable to attend the high festival of their Alma Mater. At length, when the class of 1774 was named, Mr. Samuel...