Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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What would my mother think...
What would my mother think...
...great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken of by the papers. We should feel proud that our reputation is so well sustained abroad...
...This is our mother, John...
Under the circumstances, we cannot blame the author for reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with such - as this, both his mother and the world would doubtless be better...