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...beings not merely doctors, lawyers or busness men." The need of moral instruction is more pressing than ever, for the binding authority of the past, the ideals of religion, nationality, custom, and even of honor are vaguely doubted in the democratic community of today. The sociological, political, and economic prob- lems of the day rest at bottom on the question of ethics...
...Thomas Rogers, father of Katherine, John Harvard's mother, a well-to-do marketman, and later alderman and may or, brought up his children side by side with the Shakespeare children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have been known to William Shakespeare. When John Harvard was 18, he lost his father...
Thanks to old "Prob.," that metaphorically and literally warm weather is predicted...