Word: parents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Accordingly, Harvard "offers greater and better facilities for study, and we can blame only human nature, if parent, guardians and ambitious young men go where they can get the most for their time and money...
...sooner or later. All this proves nothing as to Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit of the apron-strings. With an exultant sense of freedom he will plunge into the wildest dissipation...
...general idea men of other colleges have of Harvard, is that it is a place where no man should go unless he is abundantly supplied with cash, or has a fond and wealthy parent not too careful in examining his son's accounts, and that with this condition favorable, Harvard is a good place for a man to have a good time, and to see something of the world, but that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just...
...young Beecher, the phenomenal quarter-back of the Yale foot-ball eleven, has had a very profitable season on the field. I am informed from very reliable authority that the boy's father promised him $25 apiece for every touch-down he would make during the season. The indulgent parent rejoices in his son's notoriety, which has cost him the sum of $400, as the youngster scored sixteen touch-downs. - Globe...
...university for the government of the conduct of students, - and that rule would be something like this: that whenever at any time any student is found to be not fulfilling the purpose for which he came to the university, the president of the university shall direct the parent or guardian to withdraw him therefrom, and if he is not withdrawn within a reasonable time he will be dismissed...