Word: children
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doing all day long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life? Let him be pictured coming into his home, chinking the coin in his pockets, and as he enters he strikes up the "Beautiful Blue Danube," and all the children fall into a spontaneous jig that is perfectly infectious in its jollity. May there not really be such a thread of romance running through the seemingly monotonous life-tramp of the Organ-Grinder...
...Football Nine and went back to the Yard; by this time it was evening, and the trees were covered with jack-o'lanterns, and the Glee Club serenaded the band. I was pained to see how many poor little boys were around, but was told they were the children of the "goodies," and had special privileges...
...proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished to have it clearly understood that while some more favored collegians [sic] indulge in aristocratic amusement, the boys of Orono did not "squander their time and money in the gilded halls of vice." (Applause...
...slipping into absolute obscurity. And I have very little respect for a man who has not a real and ardent love for the name he bears. Our Harvard pride, like our family pride, is a real safeguard. The name of our dear old college has kept many of her children from disgrace. But family pride often betrays men into the most arrant absurdities. And I am not sure that Harvard pride is not at this moment tending to put a great many Harvard men in a position like that of the silly old Spanish king who preferred...
...undergraduates, are the children who sport with merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan...