Word: children
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perhaps imagine that it is the children of men who have been educated here who now fill the college. Far from it. Not one in eight of the students now in college is the son of a man who has received a degree from the University, no matter in what department. It is one of the chief delights of those who have the privilege of devoting their lives to the service of this precious institution, that they work not alone for the generation which is now under their hands, but for the thronging generations of the future...
...doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...
...academic year; H. B. Hodges as instructor in Chemistry and German; E. L. Mark, Ph. D., as instructor in Zoology; Silas Marcus MacVane, A. B., as instructor in History; James L. Laughlin, Ph. D., as instructor in Political Economy; Dr. T. M. Rotch as clinical instructor on diseases of children, for the current academic year; George Riddle, A. B., instructor in Elocution during the current academic year and during the absence of Professor Baxter. A proposal to present from the estate of the late Geo. O. Hovey, Esq., the sum of $5,000 to the Harvard Medical School, provided...
...collar and my waistcoat, and as I pride myself on the modesty of my dress, these little attentions on his part did not increase my love and affection for the child. I have always admired the sound common-sense of the old gentleman who, when asked if he liked children, said he was very fond of them in Bougereau...
...wearied with this grievance that I withdrew early in the evening. On my return home I fell into a profound contemplation on the evils of family companies and the decay of good old Roman customs. The children in Rome, according to Tacitus, sat at a table apart from the triclinium where their elders reclined, and, we may justly suppose, did not add their valuable fund to the resources of polite conversation. The little Britannicus is said to have been sitting at one of those tables when he took the poison. His fate was, to be sure, a severe...