Word: parents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such a case as this, power, as is so common, is on the side of wrong; and if a parent is obstinate, much trouble may be experienced in managing him. So frequently is this the fact that one hears every day of undutiful fathers usurping the reins of family government and ruling in their son's stead...
...then is this danger to be met? No general rule can be given. Each son must decide for himself in accordance with the peculiarities of his own especial parent. However, let not the son swerve an instant from his duty; knowing the true course, let him follow it, remembering that the persistent elbowing of the little wave gradually crowds aside the giant cliff. Let him complain unceasingly, let him be alternately sulky, gloomy, and petulant, let him if necessary even resort to desperate dissipation,- and success is almost inevitable...
Rugby Foot Ball as played in Canada to-day, is substantially the same game as that introduced years ago. The American Association or open formation game was brought in some five years since, but at no time met with such favor as to supplant its parent...
...corps of instructors, the broader its curriculum, and in brief the nearer it approximates to a university, the greater becomes the estrangement between instructors and students. It is here that the smaller colleges have the advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could gain in larger universities. Can we compare the benefit which ten boys...
...germ of the nervous system, and later, a keen appreciation of the outer world. But no trace is visible of sympathy, ("the going out of the mind into fields of life beyond it self"), until we reach those animals in which the sexes are distinguished. The sexual and parental instinct is the beginning of sympathy. In the lower forms in which this instinct is distinguished, it is but momentary, and the offspring is self-supporting from the first. As we ascend we see the young more and more helpless, and drawing more and more care from the parent. The next...