Word: children
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Josef Hofmann's public performances have been limited to four a week through the intervention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
...witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children exceeds every other class." "Harvard University now distributes to students $67,000 a year, a sum larger than our total receipts for students.- N. Y. Post...
...David Lathrop Hunn, aged 98 years, the oldest graduate of Yale College, has preached the gospel to three generations, and is still active in the work, especially among the children at Buffalo...
...affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence of the Catholic clergy would be exerted in compelling men to send their children to the parochial schools instead of public ones, against their will. The Catholic church seeks to control the State, and there is no reason why a general tax on the people should be appropriated to promulgate a special faith...
Harvard College treats the students as men; the students, however, act in some instances, like the merest children. The performances of last Monday night can find no sanction in the minds of candid and impartial men. The class of '91, represented by a number of its uncontrolled spirits, has made for itself an unenviable reputation early in its career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn...