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...coincidence: both men were bachelors, both had made fortunes of ten millions, Peabody by advancing cash, Hopkins by advancing credit. Johns Hopkins learned that George Peabody had given Harvard University an institute of archaeology, Yale an institute of physical science. "There are two memorials that will live forever," mused childless Mr. Peabody. "A university. . . a hospital. . . ." Childless Mr. Hopkins soon left $3,500,000 for a university, $3,500,000 for a hospital...
...Oswald Henshawe had, another woman might have stayed happy. But ambition for him and hatred of their poverty ate her heart. Her wit sharpened when they called on his stuffy, kindly German business friends. She had been formed for distinction, for surroundings of ease and dignity and charm. Childless, she needed scope to spend herself without stint on her friendships, for she had that concentration of affection which makes individuals of its most commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with fine people inviolate in their highest mood. Deathly poor and dying bitterly, long after her bright...
...CRAIG'S WIFE?The relentless portrait of a woman who honored her childless home above her husband...
...figures are representative of the trend of vital statistics in other higher-educated groups in the U. S. Dr. Phillips studied the reproductive activity of the Harvard classes of 1891-1900. The married graduates of this decade had produced but 2.33 children apiece. More alarming, the proportion of childless marriages had risen progressively from...
...England, hinting that she might marry him, Mary nursed him through the measles and married him herself. She was 23 years old. He was handsome, beardless?"a pretty stripling," reared by a fussily ambitious mother and a vain, weak father never to forget the contingency that if Elizabeth died childless he was heir to the English throne. Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible. A hired assassin could have murdered Rizzio, her Italian diplomatist, but to discredit Mary, Darnley was persuaded to have it done of his own will...