Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest living graduate of Harvard, Mr. William R. Sever of Plymouth had his 96th birthday last week...
...Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night...
...down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education...
Just because the rooms are few in number the oldest classmen should have the first right to them. In the old days, a Harvard senior could not graduate with a clear conscience unless he had roomed in Holworthy. Nowadays, he is lucky if his last hours are spent within sight of the old pile! Will you kindly ask the parietal committee, or whoever has our welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could...
...crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered as worthy to row Harvard and Yale as her base-ball nine is to meet the clubs from the two oldest colleges...