Word: boys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selfishness of some natures. The false standards, false ideals, spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There is little hope for a boy whose father is a man of the world, and whose mother is engaged other wise than in home duties, whose older brothers and sisters are already leading lives of gaiety if not of dissipation. Some preparatory schools are so un-American, so undemocratic and priggish as to impress their students that they...
...first time in Boston at the Boston theatre last evening. The play is presented in four acts, each scene being exceedingly realistic, especially the school house which is a good reproduction of an old fashioned country school. The cast is strong throughout but Martin Tripp the country boy, and Squire Olcott meet with the greatest favor and keep the audience in laughter throughout the performance. The story is of a bank robbery and the real robber is not found out until the ringing of the midnight bell by the sexton who becomes locked in the belfry...
...first veper service of the year was held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel, a large congregation being present. The service was opened by the singing of J. K. Paine's "Commemoration Hymn," by the boy choir and the 'Varsity Glee club. This was followed by a prayer by Rev. Francis Peabody, after which Saint Saens' "Ave Verum" was sung. Rev. Lyman Abbott then delivered a short address taking for his text the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. The preacher drew a vivid picture of Christ's temptation by Satan and urged that Christ's example...
...life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars of the creation of his famous "Rip Van Winkle." how he acted "Ticket-of-Leave Man" before an audience of that class in Australia...
TUTOR WANTED.- For the vacation, to live in my family at Chocorua, N. H., and teach latin and arithmetic two hours a day to a boy of ten. All expenses will be paid, but no wages are offered. A man interested in natural history is preferred. Apply before 1 p. m. at 18 Garden street Cambridge...