Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sumner left Cambridge with grateful recollections of college life. He kept up his interest in all matters pertaining to his Alma Mater, and Harvard never sent forth a son whose affection was warmer at the parting or endured more faithfully to the end.
Among the topics of the evening was the idea of rendering some substantial aid to the University of California, and a committee was appointed to confer with the regents of the California University as to the most useful method of furnishing or endowing a scholarship in the name of the...
Not often does it fall to the lot of a college professor to be held by his pupils in such universal esteem and affection as was the late Dr. Martin, of the University of the City of New York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had...
A recent review of C. F Thwing's book on "American colleges" says: In his chapters on Morals and Religion the author draws conclusions very unfavorable to city colleges compared with those located in country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as...
Why did he give up foot-ball ? Perhaps because he married and felt it inconsistent with the dignity of the father of a family to be rolling about in the mud after a piece of leather. Perhaps because his common-sense warned him that bones broken at thirty do not...