Word: parente
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Then wert thou our parent, -the nurse of our souls...
...very strange and very sad that the class of '74 should so soon lose two comrades from their ranks, and that within the space of twenty-four hours. On Monday last Nicholas Reed died in Boston, far from his home and from his only living parent, but, as his classmates will be very glad to remember, surrounded by kind friends, and in the presence of one who, in the time of his fatal illness, had acquired the best right to be his chief consoler...
...branch society may be formed here, especially as "to such societies proofs of the papers to be read in London will be sent in advance, so that each branch society can, if it pleases, read at each of its meetings the same paper that is read at the parent society on the same night." In closing we would say that the sum of $6.50 sent to Professor F. J. Child (Honorary Secretary for the United States) entitles any one to membership and the Society's publications for the year, among the first of which will be the first two quartos...
...eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn...
...could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room for such. But do not persuade yourselves that it can be made strong enough to endure...