Word: children
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...friend and attempts to preserve him from the accidents of time. In the first sonnets, Shakspere thinks only of the beauty of his friend, and, seeing that the individual must die, looks to the race for immortality and urges him to marry that his beauty may survive in his children. This thought of a merely physical immortality was too narrow, and seemed in-adequate. The poet then imagined that he could triumph over Time by immortalizing his friend in his verse. This hope also proved delusive; for the ideal is not the actual, the remembrance is not the person...
...April will be held the annual competition examination for the Rotch Scholarship for students in Architecture. This scholarship, founded in 1883 by the children of Benjamin S. Rotch, provides an annual fund of $1,000 for two years for the competitor who posses the best examination before the Boston Society of Architects. The fund is to be used in foreign travel and study. The examination are conducted under the direction of the Boston Society of Architects, and are held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The examination in April 5th is a preliminary test. A problem in design will...
...recent hearing before the committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on education, in regard to the bill relating to the schooling of children and the supervision of public and private schools, President Eliot spoke very earnestly against that portion of the bill which imposes upon the public school authorities the duty of approving private schools. He alluded particularly to the effect this provision would have upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency...
Very few students and a large number of Cambridge school-children composed the audience that heard Dr. Fewkes lecture on "Star-Fishes and Sea-Urchins," last evening. Mr. Nolen, the guest of the Natural History Society, introduced Dr. Fewkes, and stated that he was glad to welcome so many young people, for the policy of the society always had been to interest the young in Natural History...
...library of American history of Vassar College has received through the children of the late James Harper, of Harper Brothers, a gift of all the works of American history published by that house. Vassar has just established a chair of history, to which the library will be a valuable adjunct...