Word: parents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole was lighted up by flambeaux, and was repeatedly cheered along the route...
...another of her sons, who had fled, as he said, from the Lords bishops, and was destined to fly once again from the Lords brethren, - for William Blackstone was not only a son of that great University, but he had taken his honors at the hands of our immediate parent, Emmanuel College. Then again a few years later, when he welcomed the great immigration under John Winthrop, it was a child of Trinity that accepted the hermit's invitation, so that in this way, as it were, the great English University became sponsor at the founding of the New England...
...morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial spirit of indifference, which by some calumniators is said to prevade the minds of Harvard men will not become so far triumphant that a large number of its devotees will ask to burden the very parent and nourisher of it, - Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge. It would seem hardly necessary to say that every undergraduate should consider it his duty...
...mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid his son to join them, and may be sure that he will save not only the fees but contingent expenses to an indefinite amount...
...enrolls 450 members. In 1883 a similar association was formed in Chicago of Western alumnae; its present membership being eighty. Branch organizations have been established in all the leading cities East and West, where local meetings are held in addition to the annual meetings of the parent organizations. It is believed that these two societies fairly represent the aims of the college women of this country...