Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest houses in Exeter, built in 1790, was burned the other night. Several students roomed there, but all escaped, many of them securing nearly all their personal effects...
...done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise him. Let him enjoy his vacation in the tranquility which accompanies the knowledge of labor well done, conscious that he has left behind him the foremost as well as the oldest American university. - Western Exchange...
...name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention to the great questions of the working classes of to-day. To the solution of these questions he has subsequently devoted most of his time. At present, Dr. Gladden is living...
...rumored that old Mr. Sever, the present oldest living graduate of Harvard, is much elated at the news that this honorable rank has descended upon his shoulders...
...great deal of interest is felt now, especially among the juniors, in the election of the editors of the Yale Literary Magazine from the junior class, which is to be held next Wednesday. The Lit. being the oldest existing college paper, is regarded with a good deal of reverence, and a place upon its board of editors is rightly regarded as one of the greatest of the literary honors in college. Unlike most college papers, one set of editors do not choose their successors, but every year the junior class elects five of its own members to constitute the board...