Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From the pecuniary viewpoint, he said, teaching is not a highly satisfactory profession, and one who goes into it as a life work must be content to draw his recompense partly from other sources than money. These are the respect in which the teacher is always held in a community...
John Harvard was admitted a member of the church on November 6, 1637, and a short time afterward he was made its pastor. There are few records of his ministry, except that he preached and prayed with evidences of strong feeling and affection, and that "his own heart was delighted...
"More than 760 alumni of Harvard University unite in giving to the President and Fellows of Harvard College the sum of thirty thousand five hundred dollars ($30,500.00) to establish a Shaler Memorial Fund in commemoration of the long services of Professor Nathaniel South-gate Shaler and of the great...
Strenge, the chief of police, has a sister, a widow, and a pretty niece, both of them looking for suitable husbands. Ripphard, the wealthiest man of the village, who has been courting the widow, transfers his affections to the wealthier and prettier niece, using the power of his money to...
"And so, though Cambridge was made the better by his actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and...