Word: mother
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There is little hope for a boy whose father is a man of the world, and whose mother is engaged other wise than in home duties, whose older brothers and sisters are already leading lives of gaiety if not of dissipation. Some preparatory schools are so un-American, so undemocratic and priggish as to impress their students that they are the favored ones on this earth. These boys...
...that our correspondent Nauseatus seems to have been suffering from his own malady at the time of his writing we should be inclined to agree with him in the opinion he has expressed. We cannot, however, join him in the uncharitable attitude which he has assumed toward good old Mother Advocate. If she be in error she need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball league. Very possibly...
...Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories...
...ideas, both civil and religious, with the innumerable conflicts between bigotry and tolerance, radicalism and conservatism, which have marked the history of Boston. The most interesting period was that just preceding the Revolution when Boston, under the leadership of Samuel Adams, was the centre of the resistance to the mother country. The exciting events of the period are well told. The history of Harvard is closely interwoven with that of Boston and the names and doings of Harvard men are chronicled in connection with every important movement. The book is profusely illustrated with wood cuts and is well illustrated...
...university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best of advantages and methods are our own, and Harvard has always taken first rank for her freedom and her breadth. Despite the sneers of croakers and wisacres, she is today as she has been ever, the mother of cultured manly sons...