Word: ancestors
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Naturally, there are a few errors of omission and commission that we must try to ignore. It is to be regretted that the author stooped so low as to pun a phrase from "Fair Harvard" as a title for a chapter on printing--"Type of our ancestor's worth." The index of the book is very sketchy, and such material as the filling in of Back Bay is omitted. And certainly even poetic liceuse does not excuse the illustrator from depicting the Charles flowing serenely past Massachusetts Hall in the direction of what is now the Square. But these criticisms...
...history of the extension courses is an interesting one. Although they have existed under the present system only back to 1910, their ancestor is the Lowell foundation...
Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
Over a fireplace in Sir Robert's country house, Denham Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...
...sociable but completely unaffected, and loves to quote Hotspur's contemptuous speech about popinjay staff officers who shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, and talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, of guns and drums and wounds. His blood runs thick with soldiery: his first ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror, and he is the third general in three generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong...